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Make up sentences of your own using various collocations
with the word scourge.

to eliminate/defeat/combat/ tackle the scourge of …;
a terrible scourge to the lives of victims;
the scourge of global terrorism/of illicit trafficking of human beings/of unemployment/of war/of famine;
a modern scourge/a major scourge/a global scourge;
the scourge of humanity