terrible
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How often have I paid the price of politeness and let terrible people get away?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
Yet he visited all 24 states, along a circuit of more than 6,000 miles and hundreds of stops, braving terrible storms, bad roads and one shipwreck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"You feel guilty being there - going to the beach and having a good time, while these families are in such terrible situations," observes a woman with her young daughter.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Her son Matthew Caruana Galizia said jurors had made a "terrible decision... that our country may never recover from".
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
“Right,” I said, and for the first time I didn’t have the desire to point out that being stuck with her as a partner felt like a terrible thing to me.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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