nightmare
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The situation thrust the team at NBC4 into a journalist’s nightmare — a tragedy where reporters become part of the story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Another, a Navy veteran, recounts an unimaginable nightmare aboard an abandoned ship in the Arctic Ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
An industrial nightmare was brewing south of Los Angeles.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
She knew kids risked being sent home when classes resumed in late August — a scenario that would disrupt not just their learning but create a logistical nightmare for working families.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
The nightmare march lasted a mile or more.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
But short on detail about what those nightmares will look like.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
CHICAGO—At the conclusion of yet another dismal season for the Chicago White Sox last fall, the number 70.9 haunted Chris Getz’s nightmares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
In their small living room, his mother sighs: "He still has nightmares at night, and I am getting weaker day by day."
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
But once she’s confronted by spectral figures in her nightmares, she starts to wonder if something supernatural is going on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
I fall asleep, only to be chased in my nightmares by a screaming Mrs. Kluck riding her ice cream machine like a horse.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
