I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
planning
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The introduction of the new type of development plan under the 1968 Act involved revised provisions in relation to planning blight .
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Whether they give rise to more or to less planning blight than the old development plan system is debatable.
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In 1973 the Land Compensation Act gave statutory effect to these, and made other significant changes to the planning blight provisions.
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He warned that thousands of householders faced the prospect of years of planning blight .
■ VERB
cast
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There was still no word from Jonna, though, which cast a blight over Annie's mood.
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People were enjoying themselves, Tom was laughing, she was afraid of casting a blight .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A 250-foot communications tower becomes a symbol of environmental decay as well asa cancer-causing blight on society.
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Bartlett pears are susceptible to fire blight .
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Fujimori argues that the recovery is on course and that he has made important inroads against the centuries-old blight of poverty.
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In the meantime, an owner who wishes to move and sell his property has to wrestle with the problem of blight .
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Nor are the blight years which affected potato crops in about one year in three, in the not so distant past.
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The City Council even passed a resolution declaring that there was no blight in Oakland.
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This promised major benefits to the nine Baltimore schools, some of which suffered from inner-city blight .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Rusty cans and plastic wrappers are blighting our wilderness areas.
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The country is blighted by poverty.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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David and Barbara Owen say the property is blighted by plans for a bypass just yards away.
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Despite such inside knowledge, the opening passages were racked with nervousness and blighted by a series of up-and-unders.
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Life may be regarded as an austere struggle, blighted by fate, where only the rich and the lucky fare well.
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Many considered the Booker Washington area hopelessly blighted.
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No one kept track of exactly how many were mistreated, but several thousand deaths blight the record of Ferdinand and Isabelia.
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The atmosphere was being poisoned, every green thing blighted, and every stream fouled with chemical fumes and waste.