horrors

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Some of her patients apologized for the seeming triviality of their traumas compared with the horrors she survived.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, Emily Blunt and an icy Meryl Streep return for a sequel that’s less about fashion, more about the horrors of keeping a magazine alive.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Olga Freidenberg’s journals recorded the indignities and horrors of daily life in the Soviet Union.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

But because it involved cauterizing lesions, I was put under general anesthesia to spare me the horrors of experiencing it.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

Janey Hart discussed how 100 years earlier, men served as hospital attendants and women were thought of as too weak to withstand the horrors of military hospitals.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson