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When the Reagan administration did little to recognize, much less address, the HIV/AIDS epidemic that was ravaging marginalized communities in the 1980s, community members organized to care for the sick themselves.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025

Greece’s largest active wildfire was in the country’s northeast near the border with Turkey, where it was ravaging forests and farmland near the town of Alexandroupolis for a third day.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023

Type 2 diabetes was ravaging Gary Russell Sr.’s body to the point that his left foot was amputated in December.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2022

Beyond the windows of the softly lit library, “a terrible plague was ravaging the world.”

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2021

And others hold that the Plague was ravaging a line of cities over in Utnar Véhi, following the South-west wind which for many weeks had been blowing across them towards Bethmoora.

From A Dreamer's Tales by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron