terrible
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"I know we shouldn't get used to terrible things like this, but because they keep happening, I've stopped being surprised," she told the BBC.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
And something happened: The collective realization of how they’d all endured the same terrible losses took just enough steam out of the room that they began to talk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
When I say “The Swan” was one of the vilest shows ever made, that is coming from a person who has seen a quarter-century’s worth of terrible television.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Statisticians I have consulted insist that it’s almost certainly a coincidence that those three particularly terrible months for the market happened to occur in October.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
If she had, I thought, she wouldn’t be taking this terrible trip now.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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