hell
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Disembarking alongside her from a coach in the Ukrainian region of Chernihiv with their immediate family and dog, her husband Viacheslav put it this way: "We came back from hell."
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
At the summer conference for Latino high school students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in the early 2010s, I was the keynote speaker, with a hell of an opener before me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Investment in artificial intelligence is driving our economy and the markets but it’s also doing something else … scaring the hell out of people.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
Working for the Penn administration is an ambassador’s nightmare and hell on the esophagus.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
If he had, certainly, all hell would have broken loose.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
"So this is glamour, people are walking past saying I've seen that bodysuit in M&S, I must get one... but it was all fine, there was no fire - only in the nine hells."
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024
Background characters are presented as translucid entities reinforcing the idea that most of us, trapped in routinary hells, are already ghosts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023
It’s going to be one hell of an offseason, and there’s nothing like hells of offseasons.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 28, 2021
On August 4th, we watched from our separate hells as a 40,000-foot cloud the color of bruised flesh collapsed over the ridge west of Greenville.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021
A bare minimum of bulbs lit the space, casting long shadows and making the alcoves seem like portals to undisclosed hells.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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