as in horrors
a situation or state that causes great suffering and unhappiness
that 20-page exam was a nightmare
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Recent Examples of nightmares
Use of some fluoroquinolone antibiotics, such as ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin, has also been linked with a higher risk of nightmares.
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Stacey Colino, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
The medication is also sometimes prescribed for nightmares and other sleep disturbances caused by post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the AP.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025
Such distress can affect your sleep — even to the point of nightmares, said sleep specialist Jennifer Mundt, a clinical associate professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of Utah’s Sleep Wake Center.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
In the middle, Lily Lufkin and Karsyn Trott are opposition nightmares.
—Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2025
Several of the characters are visited by nightmares, or nightmarish versions of their fears, much like in the films.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Our conjure drives the cinematic imagination of Americans like the hags who ride our backs during our darkest nightmares.
—Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
For years, Billboard has tracked the graveyard smashes, thriller nights and legal nightmares that have sunk their teeth into the KILLboard Rot 100.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
King is said to have had nightmares that night — his son running through endless hallways, pursued by a malevolent presence — inspiring the plot of the famous movie.
—Noreen Kompanik, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Stacey Colino, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
The medication is also sometimes prescribed for nightmares and other sleep disturbances caused by post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the AP.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 1 Nov. 2025
Such distress can affect your sleep — even to the point of nightmares, said sleep specialist Jennifer Mundt, a clinical associate professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of Utah’s Sleep Wake Center.
—Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
In the middle, Lily Lufkin and Karsyn Trott are opposition nightmares.
—Mike Waters, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Oct. 2025
Several of the characters are visited by nightmares, or nightmarish versions of their fears, much like in the films.
—Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Our conjure drives the cinematic imagination of Americans like the hags who ride our backs during our darkest nightmares.
—Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
For years, Billboard has tracked the graveyard smashes, thriller nights and legal nightmares that have sunk their teeth into the KILLboard Rot 100.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
King is said to have had nightmares that night — his son running through endless hallways, pursued by a malevolent presence — inspiring the plot of the famous movie.
—Noreen Kompanik, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nightmares
Noun
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This tale of a plausible viral apocalypse makes the case that true horrors can lurk just outside our view — and possibly within us all.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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Pritam witnessed firsthand the horrors of Partition—communal riots forced her to migrate to India from Pakistan in 1947 with nothing but her two small children and a red shawl.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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Former Jews deemed insufficiently converted faced the Spanish Inquisition’s tortures.—
David Bloom,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Falling support in Gaza Palestinian public pressure on Hamas has risen as the miseries of war have mounted.—
Mkhaimar Abusada,
The Conversation,
5 Oct. 2025
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But current virus variants continue to spread burning throats, fevers and other miseries.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
8 Sep. 2025
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Scream With Me expands on this argument with its analysis of The Exorcist, a movie that Johnson interprets as a parable about physical abuse; its male demon torments and beats a single working mother and her child.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Nightmares.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nightmares. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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