nightmarish
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The attempt went relatively smoothly, she explains, apart from a "nightmarish" section when cleaning a kid's playground at four in the morning where the game's bright primary colours affected her in "a very psychedelic way".
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
A season of frustratingly unfortunate events for USC had led here, to this nightmarish crescendo at the one-minute mark Saturday, in a must-win matchup.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026
Harvey Pratt was a young police officer in Midwest City, Okla., during a string of nightmarish murders in the early 1960s.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
His sister Linda Unamuno, 39, burst into sobs as she recalled a nightmarish night.
From Barron's • Jan. 4, 2026
The master had said it in so many words—my reward for whatever awaited me in this nightmarish new world into which I had enlisted.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
Vocabulary lists containing nightmarish
Rowan of Rin
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Novel Study: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Chapters 12–20
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