nightmare
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To prevent nightmare scenarios, regulators and advocates say the key is to first reduce the stigma around mental health and reduce the threat of pilots’ losing their income or license if they seek help.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
"I do want the next project after this to be less on hard mode, or really it was nightmare mode, because we did so many things on hard mode at the same time," he reflects.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The nightmare scenario of running over budget and saddling local taxpayers with debt hangs over the organizing committee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
In other words, the Salish Sea may still be hiding plenty of additional nightmare fuel.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
Then John Worth had to go and ruin it all by having a rip-roaring nightmare.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
Her children were having nightmares and Brandon had told her he no longer wanted to live in the house.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
In their small living room, his mother sighs: "He still has nightmares at night, and I am getting weaker day by day."
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 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
In my head, I heard Miss Willis again, just as I heard her in my worst nightmares.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
