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
To hear Walker tell it in the video he shared the next day, he was the victim of a hospitality nightmare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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
They slept the night through, sometimes shouting out in nightmare terrors of great waves or danger on the ice.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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
Germany has not yet approved a medication specifically for 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
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
“It’s mighty hard. All the time I was in school, I had nightmares over Latin.”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
