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I guess the reason it needs a lot of chocolate is the actual cookie is rather dreadful.
WHO MAKES THE BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE? WE TASTED 14 TOP BRANDS AND RANKED THEM.MATT BROOKSDECEMBER 4, 2020WASHINGTON POST
As a glasses-noob suffering from the dreadful fog myself, I turned to the internet for answers.
THE BEST WAYS TO STOP A MASK FROM FOGGING UP YOUR GLASSES, RANKEDSANDRA GUTIERREZ G.NOVEMBER 18, 2020POPULAR SCIENCE
She is a threat to its isolation, its purity, and its unknowable and dreadful secrets.
GOTHIC NOVELS ARE OBSESSED WITH BORDERS. MEXICAN GOTHIC TAKES FULL ADVANTAGE.CONSTANCE GRADYOCTOBER 16, 2020VOX
If there were to be any sort of silver lining to dreadful circumstances, this was it.
HAMMERLY ISN’T READY TO GIVE UP ON THEATERPATRICK FOLLIARDAUGUST 20, 2020WASHINGTON BLADE
Toronto’s offense checks in just outside the top 10 for the full season, and it’s been dreadful during the restart.
THE RAPTORS’ DEFENSE IS ALMOST NEVER THE SAME, BUT IT’S ALWAYS REALLY GOODJARED DUBINAUGUST 17, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
The conflict in Tom's puzzled heart sharpened that evening into dreadful edges that cut him mercilessly whichever way he turned.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD
He could not bear to open his dreadful situation to his Uncle David, nor to kill himself, nor to defy the vengeance of Longcluse.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
At other times they have a dreadful look of being fibs invented for the purpose of covering a fault.
CHILDREN'S WAYSJAMES SULLY
Nevertheless, this world of mankind to-day seems to me to be a very sinister and dreadful world.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
She had wakened up in the night, and perceived with dreadful clearness that trouble lay in front of her.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETT
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