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nightmare

noun as in bad dream or experience

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“At work, I sometimes go blank, filled with fears. Days are better, but after dusk, it becomes hard. I get nightmares.”

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“My involvement in the staffing industry gave me a piece of the American dream,” Mr. Perez said in his statement from jail, “and then turned into my worst nightmare.”

The former chief medical officer for England said she had experienced nightmares about someone picking up discarded nerve agent after the poisoning of a former spy.

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"I hate everything about this situation. It’s a nightmare to think about and I’m just glad nobody else is going to get hurt."

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On both Friday and Saturday nights, Lily had "bad nightmares," Ms Logan said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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