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nightmare

noun as in bad dream or experience

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This is a nightmare for the thief, because they have to decide how much time and risk they want to devote to the job.

Burleson is widely credited with establishing the “zone system” to determine mail costs, while DeJoy has been praised for his logistics-oriented approach by those who see the postal service as a money-losing bureaucratic nightmare.

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We gave them a bunch of different scenarios and asked them to weight which were most likely to bring about their nightmares.

The league denied Delle Donne a high-risk exemption, despite her Lyme disease, which triggered a PR nightmare for the WNBA, but the Mystics said this week she will still be paid her full salary.

The latest indication came from county supervisor candidate Nora Vargas, who posted on Facebook Thursday a nightmare story of her attempts to get tested for the virus due to exposure she experienced in the course of her campaign.

You know, I feel the same way about that that I do about The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Uber responded to the PR nightmare by reversing the surge, refunding those affected, and doling out free rides.

For Jane Doe though, she was heading into yet another nightmare.

The path may be there, but current travelers to Sudan face a bureaucratic nightmare of permits and road blocks.

His lone stable was a girl from Newport News, Virginia, who had already escaped one nightmare.

As men fixed in the grip of nightmare, we were powerless—unable to do anything but wait.

And the nightmare clutch laid hold upon his heart with giant pincers.

But a horrible thing that had happened to him, had awakened in him a lonely nightmare of restlessness.

It was a kind of nightmare, and her heart beat fast as the bids came rapidly,—sometimes on Howard's side and sometimes on Jack's.

They awoke on the morrow, their minds still distraught and deeming the thing was but a nightmare.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nightmare, such as: dream, fantasy, hallucination, horror, ordeal, and vision.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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