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Recent Examples of horrendously
Taking just the bare stats into consideration, Rooney's managerial career has been defined by a horrendously low win rate, but that is in addition to a spate of embarrassing off-field antics.
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Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horrendously
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In each show, the two nitwits would set out on some caper, which would inevitably go horribly wrong, leaving them broke, or tied up, or in jail, or hanging over a cliff, or some other situation of great peril.—
John Cassidy,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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Poor Bella’s horribly adverse reaction to the virus makes for a great jump scare in the moment and also an exclamation point on the season overall, emphasizing that no one really understands how this virus works.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2026
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Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters’ sentence is absolutely appropriate, and former Democratic Colorado State Senator Sonya Jacquez Lewis’s sentence is terribly lenient.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
14 Mar. 2026
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The narrator’s terribly British father takes refuge from the emotional storms of his household by listening to jazz records in his office.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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More than anything, this documentary is dreadfully dull.—
Zack Sharf,
Variety,
11 Mar. 2026
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That’s another company with a stock that acts dreadfully.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
25 Jan. 2026
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The classic bikini fairing harks back to the original café racer's front end, surrounding a pair of awfully low-slung clip-on handlebars and dual electronic clocks behind a compact visor.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
6 Mar. 2026
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But the combination of naked ambition, absence of cynicism, and a sunny disposition seemed awfully suspicious.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
3 Mar. 2026
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The mother of a girl who was horrifically wounded in a school shooting in Canada in February is suing OpenAI for not warning police about the killer, Jesse Van Rootselaar, according to reports.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
11 Mar. 2026
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Olivia Simon, United States, 2025, WORLD PREMIERE Trapped alone in a haunted room, a paranormal researcher’s experiment goes horrifically wrong.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
11 Mar. 2026
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Their relentless and slick positional rotations routinely pull opponents disastrously out of shape, allowing their blistering speed and dribbling skill to exploit the space created, aided by the attacking thrust of Nuno Mendes and Achraf Hakimi from the full-back positions.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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They can be done imperfectly without being done disastrously.—
Leslie John,
Time,
27 Feb. 2026
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Critics argue this work is extractive and poorly compensated, especially when these AI systems are being trained to ultimately replace human labor.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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Unnatural results often occur when treatments are excessive or poorly planned.—
Carlos Wolf,
Miami Herald,
12 Mar. 2026
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Despite the robotic-like confidence coming from the Kremlin’s top policymakers and propagandists, the Russian army’s territorial gains over the last year have been abysmally small.—
Daniel DePetris,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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Four months after his death, a handful of late 1960s recordings Marley and the Wailers cut for American soul singer Johnny Nash and his business partner, Danny Sims, were rushed out on a slapdash compilation, abysmally titled Chances Are–the first cash-in of many to come.—
Eric Harvey,
Pitchfork,
18 Jan. 2026
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“Horrendously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horrendously. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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