horrendous
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After Gilles Villeneuve died and team-mate Didier Pironi suffered horrendous injuries, and with Renault afflicted by reliability issues, Keke Rosberg came through to take the title for Williams despite winning only one race.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
"It's just mentally horrendous more than anything, just trying to find out what it was," she says.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
"Eating an ice cream because it's horrible, it feels catastrophic. I don't know what temperature we're at, but it feels horrendous... and I'm from Mexico," she told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
McHale’s character is horrendous to such a degree that some who watched the first two seasons theorized he didn’t exist.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2024
As the planet warms, fires have become more horrendous.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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