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as in nightmares
a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness
had never experienced the horrors of war
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as in messes
something unpleasant to look at
are you really going to hang that horror on the wall?
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as in hatreds
a dislike so strong as to cause stomach upset or queasiness
cat lover or no, she regards cleaning the litter box with horror
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Recent Examples of horrors
Six Sex never ignores the horrors, but uses them as fuel for a debut that unfurls as a freewheeling post-porno blitz.
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E.r. Pulgar, Pitchfork, 11 June 2026
But Azeez did confirm that once season 3 is underway, Javadi will no longer be feet-first in the horrors of emergency medicine.
—Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026
While Paula is inside the motel and horrors begin unfolding, Geri and Rudy chat about their respective futures.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 10 June 2026
Its horrors will never be fully told.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 10 June 2026
At stake is whether millions of Black Americans will have a say in their future or if the South will descend into the horrors of Jim Crow.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026
Still others were escaping the horrors of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia.
—Elizabeth Holtzman, Time, 9 June 2026
And the horrors of the Middle Passage were intensely present.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 9 June 2026
Their childhood, for all its horrors, felt at times like the easy part.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
E.r. Pulgar, Pitchfork, 11 June 2026
But Azeez did confirm that once season 3 is underway, Javadi will no longer be feet-first in the horrors of emergency medicine.
—Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026
While Paula is inside the motel and horrors begin unfolding, Geri and Rudy chat about their respective futures.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 10 June 2026
Its horrors will never be fully told.
—Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 10 June 2026
At stake is whether millions of Black Americans will have a say in their future or if the South will descend into the horrors of Jim Crow.
—Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2026
Still others were escaping the horrors of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia.
—Elizabeth Holtzman, Time, 9 June 2026
And the horrors of the Middle Passage were intensely present.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 9 June 2026
Their childhood, for all its horrors, felt at times like the easy part.
—Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for horrors
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Beyond fueling nightmares, Beeple says the bigger point of this robodog project is to draw attention to how more and more of the observable world consists of benign design, created to fulfill the vision of a select few techno-billionaires.—
Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
4 Dec. 2025
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The novel’s protagonist, Kyungha, a writer whose work—like Han’s—has excavated grim periods in South Korean history, suffers nightmares featuring tree stumps shaped like bodies.—
The Atlantic,
The Atlantic,
4 Dec. 2025
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This robot vacuum handles daily crumbs, pet hair, and high-traffic messes without Mom lifting a finger.—
Jeaneen Russell,
PEOPLE,
3 Dec. 2025
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Avoid close contact with others, avoid handling food, wash your hands frequently and thoroughly clean up any bathroom messes.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
27 Nov. 2025
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The deepest reason for this near-universal futility is that most of us remain imprisoned by the delusions of the ego, suffering from alternating cravings and revulsions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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Personalized speculation of death Ypsilanti author Ken MacGregor specializes in dark, speculative fiction and personalized stories about how people might die or face worse fates based on their fears, passions, wants and revulsions.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
18 Dec. 2025
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Although the novel’s center does not quite hold, O’Farrell’s emotional intelligence — the heart and heat of her characters — braces this sometimes unwieldy chronicle of a nation that has been subject to cumbrous historic agonies.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
Vulture,
2 June 2026
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The agonies of the day were only intermittently audible in the music on offer in Witten.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Both O’Flynn and Rhys have had spotlight episodes so far this season, but will Emmys voters see the pathos and creativity behind the laughs and frights?—
William Earl,
Variety,
11 June 2026
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Dark, eerie, and paranoid (for good reason), the eight-episode season shifts back and forth from the casual grimness of an unwelcoming reality to the shocking frights of a stoner’s worst nightmare (the latter of which is shrewdly motivated by Rachel regularly smoking pot).—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
26 Mar. 2026
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Paul Valéry said that taste is formed of a thousand distastes, and Anderson’s aesthetic is a furious affirmation fuelled by those many implicit repudiations.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
29 May 2025
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Tykes get slapped around, shot with arrows and dangled in traffic — tortures that are played seriously, but the shock of them allows you to guffaw.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
11 June 2026
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But such judgments often come from a place of distance—from people who have never lived under a theocracy that imprisons, tortures, and kills with impunity.—
Nazanin Boniadi,
Time,
11 Mar. 2026
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But for now, he's got his sights set on Team England ahead of the North American World Cup, which kicks off in Mexico City June 11.—
Wendy Grossman Kantor,
PEOPLE,
11 June 2026
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Alongside the big-ticket sights, families might join a soccer match with local children and crew, swim in the Nile, explore by felucca, try sand dune boarding, attend a galabeya party, or peek behind the scenes in the captain’s wheelhouse.—
Ashlea Halpern,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 June 2026
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“Horrors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horrors. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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