nightmare
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Whether your team is winning or losing, on both accounts, it's a nightmare.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
In retrospect, Bonilla, 31, finds great irony in how that initial foray into professional acting fictionally materialized her Mexican immigrant parents’ worst nightmare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Squeezing dinner in between work and other activities can be a logistical nightmare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
But over the past couple of years, every other person seems to have ditched their headphones and is brandishing their phones like radios set to a nightmare station.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Mary Todd Lincoln burst into the room, and the bright gaslight confirmed to her that this was not a nightmare as she hoped it was—this was real.
From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson
But short on detail about what those nightmares will look like.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Instrumental convergence is the stuff on which nightmares are built, although I remain skeptical simply because of the overwhelming imperative of governments to protect their own prerogatives.
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
Jack woke up from nightmares of a man in green to find that the forest he’d fallen asleep in was gone.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
