horrors

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In a nearby tent was Zuhoor Musa Abdul Rahman, a 30-year-old housewife who recounted with unnatural calm the horrors that spurred her to flee El Fasher, a city some 300 miles east of Obeid.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

His story is a reminder of the horrors the virus can cause.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

We regret having to relate such details, but it is crucial to remember when the understandable human impulse is to forget such horrors.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Some residents cite environmental horrors from the region’s industrial past.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

I tell this tale in memory of Private Pompey Lewis, friend Pomp; who I still ardently dream shall sit beside my grandchildren and speak of kindly horrors.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson