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Recent Examples of terrible Not that being terrible was unusual. Dana O'Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025 All those things were terrible. David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025 Whether text tokens are wasteful and just terrible at the input. Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025 Benching him to once again give Volpe a shot could end up being a terrible decision. Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for terrible
Recent Examples of Synonyms for terrible
Adjective
  • The New York Jets’ Sunday began with a horrible loss, as legendary center Nick Mangold passed away after a long battle with kidney disease.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Šilovs did, however, look horrible in the shootout.
    Josh Yohe, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The intense taste and smell can make this tonic hard to stomach.
    Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Part of what spurred intense interest, according to sources, was the success of Weapons, Zach Cregger’s summer horror hit.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • However, watching the slow and steady movement of a horrific storm on a collision course with my beloved land over the last several days was agonizing.
    Grace White, Essence, 29 Oct. 2025
  • According to police, the horrific incident began when the child’s mother, who was out of town on Friday, asked her father to check on her daughter as she was being cared for by the nanny.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Hurricane Melissa’s devastation is the awful alchemy created by the unique combination of unstoppable gusts, seawater that is forced inland and deluge that pours out of the sky, all interacting with the landscape and human lives the storm found in its path.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2025
  • These limits exist because of the history of the government’s awful record with race.
    Andrew Quinio, Oc Register, 29 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The apology came after a sustained campaign by historians and activists who argued that the victims were persecuted for being poor, vulnerable, or simply different.
    James Frater, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
  • As has Mark Flekken, the new goalkeeper, who moved from Brentford and is fortunate not to have lost his place due to poor form.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Kim's direction is bold and stylish, and the supernatural scenes are terrifying, embodying the finest that Korean horror has to offer.
    Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Oct. 2025
  • By the time it was all set up, the whole cold, disintegrating place was threaded with lights and lines, flickering everywhere, black and red, the sheer quantity somehow terrifying and embracing at once.
    Blair Braverman, Outside, 28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Gómez took the 5-day trip to Mexico City as a brief respite before starting intensive training to care for Noah at his home in New York City.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • And the side hustle is time-intensive.
    Megan Sauer, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Halloween was significantly more graphic than many of its predecessors, and Zombie said the gruesome violence was a deliberate choice and that it wasn’t supposed to be easy viewing.
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The five-minute mash-up rapidly intercuts scenes of happy domesticity (a loving mother, kids in face paint eating popcorn in front of the tube, teens affectionately goofing around) with gruesome murders committed by a beautiful little boy.
    David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025

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“Terrible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terrible. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.

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