horrors
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In a video after the operation, the soft-spoken Mr. Vlasenko dwelled less on the horrors of his solitary ordeal at the front than the kindness of his fellow soldiers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
“How these are fun, tickly, exciting stories for kids to talk about and hear. And that’s connecting to the horrors of real life.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Amanpour reflected on her "very first big exciting assignment covering the First Gulf War, to the horrors of the Bosnian War, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Iran and all the points in between".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Indeed, I had blocked out most memories of that 2004 Fox reality train wreck until Carr’s documentary reached into my mind’s cobwebby attic and retrieved its cabinet of horrors.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
There were two main horrors to which it was subject, the first of which was toe horror peculiar to all balls of string—that they invariably became tangles instead of balk.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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