nightmare
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The zombie nightmare haunting private-equity firms isn’t ending anytime soon, my colleagues Matt Wirz and Mark Maurer report.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
An industrial nightmare was brewing south of Los Angeles.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Yet seven years into what seemed like endless minor league purgatory, Pride’s dream had become a nightmare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 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
I needed to get outside now, before the girls rushed headlong into another nightmare brought on by a lack of caution.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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
Curry, who died Tuesday at 80, made a gleefully evil turn as a clown that sparked nightmares for legions of Gen X and millennial viewers that continue to haunt to this day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
The creature she’d laid eyes on had been a thing built from nightmares, a mass of raw pink skin stretched tight over tendons and bone.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
