nightmare
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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
There’s an understandable pacing dip afterward, when the wounded villagers think the nightmare is over and our protagonists learn separately that the forest holds more of these mysteriously strong creatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Building data centers in the U.S. is becoming a nightmare for artificial-intelligence hyperscalers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
The twisty nightmare, told through multiple perspectives, depicts the unraveling of a suburban town after a group of schoolchildren all mysteriously leave their houses at the same time and disappear into the night.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
They were waiting for me to show up and take them home so we could put this nightmare behind us.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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Moskovsky Komsomolets had suggested that UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham should be seeing Russia, not in his dreams, "but in his nightmares".
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Instrumental convergence is the stuff on which nightmares are built, although I remain skeptical simply because of the overwhelming imperative of governments to protect their own prerogatives.
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
Anat might believe them to be such stuff as dreams were made on but that face was the stuff of nightmares.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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