nightmare
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“It continues through every nightmare, every memory, every smell of smoke,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
She is overwhelmed by memories of other nightmare disasters, such as the massive earthquake that shook the same region in 1999 and left nearly 1,200 dead.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
He had lost his mother during this sentence, but he had finally begun to put his life together before this nightmare struck.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
It was a low point in what has become a nightmare summer for Raleigh.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
If only, she thought, she could just fly, up and out of this nightmare.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Available medications often provide limited relief from trauma-related nightmares.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
At one point, amid the bewildering turmoil, one of the Politburo members simply shakes his head and says: “I’ve had nightmares that made more sense than this.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Krupych is proud of his service - a tattoo on his neck declares "Glory to the Ukrainian Armed Forces" – but he suffers from nightmares.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
It’s a sea of nightmares in suits, and among them is Schlossberg, the Dennis the Menace we don’t deserve, don’t really want, but are burdened with regardless.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
Irina Rakobolskaya said that sometimes the pilots wouldn’t sleep for days, “afraid of having nightmares during which they struggled with searchlights.”
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
