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hell on earth

NOUN
living death
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Attendees said the bookseller's annual BookFest was disorganised and potentially unsafe, with some social media users joking they had "survived" the event while one deemed it "hell on earth".

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2025

She has been in Gaza twice this year and says that it is worse than hell on earth.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2025

The delay, and the process in general, has been "hell on earth", she says, leaving her "broken".

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2025

Three decades after a national publication probed the city’s ills, we gathered a panel of Angelenos to ponder the age-old question: Is Los Angeles hell on earth?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2024

It was going to be hard to give him up once this hell on earth was over.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez




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