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We've been having hellish weather lately.
The battlefield was a hellish scene of death and destruction.
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That’s where development became kind of a hellish thing for me and Ryan.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026
The hellish scenes in Tehran were emblematic of the direct link between this war, energy infrastructure and global markets.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 9 Mar. 2026
The news site Deadspin took clips of different anchors intoning the same words and laid them over one another to make a hellish cacophony.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
The blood seeps up the edges of her white skirts — that’s going to be hellish to try to get out.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 Mar. 2026
The hellish scenes in Tehran were emblematic of the direct link between this war, energy infrastructure and global markets.
—Alexander Smith, NBC news, 9 Mar. 2026
The news site Deadspin took clips of different anchors intoning the same words and laid them over one another to make a hellish cacophony.
—Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2026
The blood seeps up the edges of her white skirts — that’s going to be hellish to try to get out.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
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“Hellish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hellish. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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