nightmarish
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Finally, “The Idiot” is the novel in which Dostoevsky most fully dramatizes his own nightmarish experience of being led blindfolded before a firing squad in 1849, only to be reprieved at the last moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile are having a nightmarish end to the week, but it could be a chance to buy their beaten-down shares.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
At around age 19 or 20, he began having regular night terrors and daily flashbacks to “horrific, nightmarish things.”
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
For Andrés Altabás, Fribin's technology and systems director, it was a nightmarish situation.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
He took out of it the glass jar containing the terrible nightmarish trogglehumper.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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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