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Example sentences for: bane

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A story claims the cellular phone boom is the bane of radio astronomers.
It is this quality--or lack of quality--of simply transplanting the real and making it into "shocking" art, which is in my opinion the bane of contemporary art today, nowhere more painfully than at the Brooklyn Museum.
Legal pundits: Boon or bane?