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The unwanted babies suffer horribly.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025 -
At a lavish country house party, a practical joke appears to have gone horribly, murderously wrong.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
4 Nov. 2025
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The data center industry does not have a terribly good answer for this, except that their 83° sun-synchronous orbit is much less crowded than equatorial ones, meaning a lower risk of collisions.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Jan. 2026
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Polls, however, suggest the bill is not terribly popular with voters, which has left Republicans saying the White House must do a better job of selling it.—
Ryan Mancini,
The Hill,
31 Dec. 2025
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The back end of the bullpen is stout, yet the lineup is dreadfully short.—
Stephen J. Nesbitt,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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After a three-game slide, getting back in the win column feels awfully good.—
Shane Connuck,
Charlotte Observer,
3 Nov. 2025
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The carousel has gotten awfully crowded.—
Blake Toppmeyer,
USA TODAY,
30 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Democrats appallingly gamed the system early on by inserting their activists (rather than fair-minded community members) on the map-drawing panels.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
12 Oct. 2025
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But the rest of the movie is straight-faced, as though its story of two reckless sociopaths vying to destroy the world in their respective modes weren’t appallingly depressing.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
7 Oct. 2025
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The nu-metal tribute to the late right-wing activist is deeply catchy and sickeningly soppy, like Creed but a lot worse.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
22 Dec. 2025
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Perhaps most disturbingly, the research lab’s satellite images have documented activity consistent with the mass burning of human corpses.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Dec. 2025
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Rhys’ Nile is disturbingly intense, yet can’t match the sheer oddity that made Durst both so compelling to watch and so believable as a killer.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
13 Nov. 2025
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“Horridly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horridly. Accessed 8 Jan. 2026.
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