terrible
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"I have terrible days, but I have a lot of good days as well. But my terrible days tend to be with the pressure of having to chase this up again," said Kay.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
“I feel terrible about what happened. I feel really bad about my actions and some of the terrible behavior I did,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
As my wife held Charlie Kirk’s widow on the first day of her terrible sorrow, Erika told Usha between sobs that she regretted having only two kids with Charlie.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 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
“Truly, I feel terrible that you came all this way,” I end up saying.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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