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"the plague" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a historically-recorded epidemic of disease, or in a metaphorical sense to refer to something burdensome or difficult to overcome. For example, you might say, "The city was devastated by the plague of unemployment."
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Then 1990, the plague.
And the plague lifted.
Still paying off the plague.
By autumn, the plague arrived.
"Is it the plague of locusts?
Camus's "The Plague" was an IDEA.
I avoid expertise like the plague.
And then the plague had subsided.
Composers avoided teleological forms like the plague.
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Avoid desperate behavior like the plague.
The plague, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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