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nightmare

noun as in bad dream or experience

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One woman, who the BBC is naming only as "Kay", explained how she had arranged to meet a man for the first time after connecting on a dating app, but the encounter turned into a nightmare.

From BBC

“I wanted her to beat Trump, but Harris winning would mean my family stays in the same nightmare we’ve come to know. Trump winning makes that nightmare more uncertain, and the ways it will harm my family less clear. But what is clear is that the U.S. government, whether Democrat or Republican, will keep sending weapons to Benjamin Netanyahu illegally. That’s what I have a problem with.”

From Slate

"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."

From BBC

"The ending is this continuous nightmare of not closing out a match," he told TNT Sports.

From BBC

But this one family’s grief is many people’s grief as it’s a nightmare replicated across the Valencia region which was hammered by flash flooding nearly two weeks ago, killing at least 219 people.

From BBC

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

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