the bad

noun

: the unpleasant things that happen to people
You have to take the good with the bad.

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An Australian ex-special forces soldier (Antony Starr) leads a terrorist takeover of the event to destabilize the world's economy, but POTUS – who's also an Army veteran – singlehandedly takes on the bad guys to save family members and world leaders alike. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025 Meanwhile, the supposedly rousing action finale hinges on whether the bad guys will kill a busload of kids and drop them into a mass grave. A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2025 The cruelest part is that the good ones are mixed with the bad ones. Matt Rivers, ABC News, 9 Apr. 2025 In perhaps the single funniest scene, Nathan has to feign pain while being tortured by one of the bad guys to stall for enough time for his friend Roscoe to rescue him. Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the bad

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“The bad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20bad. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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