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worse

[wurs] / wɜrs /
ADJECTIVE
something less good
Synonyms


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Authenticity bleeds into Brook's batting, for better and worse.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

The odds the Dow Jones Industrial Average will finish this year with a double-digit gain are no worse just because it did so in the last three calendar years.

From MarketWatch Aug. 17, 2026

Conrad: Carol is going to have to keep scrapping and not let anything worse happen to her son.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

She added that conscientious objection in Wales – where staff can refuse to take part in care on moral or religious grounds – was "widespread" and making a "bad situation" with provision worse.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

She felt something worse than bad after she’d scanned up and down the menu several times, feeling as if everybody behind her was impatient, even though nobody was yelling at her to move.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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