terrible
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Jeremy Clarkson has said it had been a "terrible" year for farming due to the hot weather, at a surprise appearance at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Alexander’s relentless, scarcely human drive is, in any case, unimaginable without Homer’s moral distinction between pleasure and often terrible glory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
When I say “The Swan” was one of the vilest shows ever made, that is coming from a person who has seen a quarter-century’s worth of terrible television.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Statisticians I have consulted insist that it’s almost certainly a coincidence that those three particularly terrible months for the market happened to occur in October.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Disgusted and feeling terrible, I took off down the road for Grandpa’s store.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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