terrible
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What’s frustrating isn’t that the jokes are terrible.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026
“How terrible it would have been,” Mr. Biswas muses in satisfaction on his deathbed, “to have lived and died as one had been born, unnecessary and unaccommodated.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
"We do not want this terrible tragedy to be used to divide people or fuel hostility," they said.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
“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
A full ten years ago, way back in 1927, Willem had written in his doctoral thesis, done in Germany, that a terrible evil was taking root in that land.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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