terribly

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Aside from being terribly boring and overlong, “Cars” represents Pixar’s first blatant step toward becoming a capitalist behemoth, an animation studio that would continue to prioritize money over media to this day.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

"Birds very often get caught in anti-drone nets or become entangled in fibre-optic cables, injuring their wings, and they suffer terribly," Iryna Snopko, the shelter's 63-year-old director told AFP.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Add it all together, and you’re left with perhaps the most fascinating and confounding player in the sport—the perfect distillation of everything that is beautiful and terribly wrong with the modern game.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

"He doesn't have a penny to go private and it's painful, terribly painful. will you say 'sorry'?"

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

“He has always been...distant and not terribly forthcoming, but he is the closest thing to family I have. And yet he tells me nothing.”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern