the bad

noun

: the unpleasant things that happen to people
You have to take the good with the bad.

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Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, ‘Look of the Week’ is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days. Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025 Learn from it all—the good, the bad, and the ugly. Dave Smith, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2025 The two lost track of each other, and in the song, Swift said her friend Abigail (Anderson Berard) called her with the bad news of Jeffrey Lang's death. Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025 Looked for the other one but couldn’t find him, probably died from the bad weather and hunger. Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the bad

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“The bad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20bad. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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