nightmare
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And the hawk is a nightmare for other birds, which is sort of the point.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
In other words, the Salish Sea may still be hiding plenty of additional nightmare fuel.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
It helps us to understand the broader information nightmare in which we’re now living.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Whether your team is winning or losing, on both accounts, it's a nightmare.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
She felt as though she was sinking into something, a nightmare she couldn’t wake from.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
Having not once allowed himself to cry in prison, he now wept regularly and was having nightmares of still being behind bars.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Instrumental convergence is the stuff on which nightmares are built, although I remain skeptical simply because of the overwhelming imperative of governments to protect their own prerogatives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
But once she’s confronted by spectral figures in her nightmares, she starts to wonder if something supernatural is going on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Edwards recalled being told by a psychologist to think about birthday parties when he had nightmares, despite many of the children who attended those parties having died.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
He felt the mental wall he’d erected to keep the nightmares at bay slowly crumble to dust, so that nothing would stop them from advancing.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
