terrible
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“Some journalist recently counted how many cops I’ve played and it was a terrible number,” she says.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Celan would later refer to the Shoah with the terrible restraint of “that which happened.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
A one-off single, released last October, it's a delicious takedown of Le Sserafim's haters, that asks the question: "If we're really that terrible, how come you're so obsessed?"
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
This sort of change in behavior would hardly be terrible; it would generate more income for workers, more output for employers and more revenue for the government in the form of base-pay taxation.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
It was a terrible thing to learn on that night because of his blood.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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