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"He was a 70-year-old non-Jewish man with a seriously broken leg, lying on cold, wet ground, and clearly in a bad way," she said.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

The market is in a bad way right now, as the economy faces plenty of risk.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

“California is thought of as the crazy people. ... I don’t mean that in a bad way — though I know some people do — but we do things differently here.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2025

You’re almost subterranean, but not in a bad way.

From Salon • May 23, 2025

It was Pimpernel and I could tell at once that he was in a bad way.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams