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Over the past year, the Daily News has chronicled a string of violent incidents and instances of medical mistreatment at MDC Brooklyn, where inmates often complain about near-constant lockdowns, rotten and infested food and filthy conditions.
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John Annese, New York Daily News, 12 Nov. 2024
Fungus gnats, which are the most common species of gnats, are often found infesting plants around the house, hanging around lights or commercial greenhouses, or congregating in other damp places like sink drains or garbage disposals.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
Citrus greening, a bacteriological infection that ultimately kills infected trees, has infested 80% of the trees according to a 2019 survey by the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences.
—Steve Wilson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Dec. 2024
The government either infested the skies with drones to take the public’s focus away from the orbs (which are being spotted much more rarely than the drones) or to use the drones for surveillance of the orbs.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2024
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John Annese, New York Daily News, 12 Nov. 2024
Fungus gnats, which are the most common species of gnats, are often found infesting plants around the house, hanging around lights or commercial greenhouses, or congregating in other damp places like sink drains or garbage disposals.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
Citrus greening, a bacteriological infection that ultimately kills infected trees, has infested 80% of the trees according to a 2019 survey by the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences.
—Steve Wilson | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Dec. 2024
The government either infested the skies with drones to take the public’s focus away from the orbs (which are being spotted much more rarely than the drones) or to use the drones for surveillance of the orbs.
—Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infest
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The Bulls were plagued by injuries, mainly to Lonzo Ball and Zach LaVine, and never finished better than sixth in the Eastern Conference with DeRozan in tow.Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 12 Jan. 2025
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Such reckless actions weaken U.S. foreign policy and show U.S. policymaking is plagued by short-sightedness and an absence of strategic empathy—causing grand delusions and great tragedies.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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McAfee has disputed that Raw Farm's milk could have infected the cats with bird flu, citing preliminary research.Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
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Immunity from whooping cough tends to fade about seven years after you’ve been vaccinated or infected by the bacteria.Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Jan. 2025
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War has ravaged the land, and the Black Death has overrun the population.Erik Kain, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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Some of the 1,250 defendants convicted of crimes after Jan. 6 called for the deaths of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Democrat from San Francisco, and Mike Pence, who was Trump’s vice president, as the mob violently overran police and breached the building.Mary Clare Jalonick, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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If no shelter is available, crawl to an interior wall away from windows.Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 10 Jan. 2025
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The two girls then left Leutner alone to crawl out of the forest and find help.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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This lack of collaboration is untenable in the current reality where the sea of fast-moving, stealth attackers threatens to overwhelm the dike entirely.Jonathan Fischbein, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
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While liberals run the country from the Washington bureaucracy out to the grassroots, conservatives run the country by arousing the grassroots to overwhelm the resistance of Washington.Newt Gingrich, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Infest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infest. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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