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
Symptoms include high anxiety, avoidance of reminders of the trauma, emotional numbness, hypervigilance, frequent intrusive memories of trauma, nightmares and flashbacks.
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Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2025
Now, the nightmares come to Switch 2.
—PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Bring nightmares to life with this 12-foot Wendigo animatronic.
—Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Building attribution systems that can track contributions across complex AI pipelines without creating privacy nightmares or computational bottlenecks is an engineering challenge in its own right.
—Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The Neverland Research Island is becoming nothing but nightmares.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Another memorable station in my suspicious/contrarian reading life, but minus points for the nightmares.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
When engagement is high, that energy spills outward, fueling better customer service, stronger brand loyalty and even helping companies avoid PR nightmares.
—Alyshia Hull, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
While stunningly shot, this is no usual Franz Kafka biopic, with Holland more interested in nightmares than the who, what, when, where and why of a story.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2025
Now, the nightmares come to Switch 2.
—PC Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
Bring nightmares to life with this 12-foot Wendigo animatronic.
—Nora Colomer
May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Building attribution systems that can track contributions across complex AI pipelines without creating privacy nightmares or computational bottlenecks is an engineering challenge in its own right.
—Roomy Khan, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
The Neverland Research Island is becoming nothing but nightmares.
—Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Another memorable station in my suspicious/contrarian reading life, but minus points for the nightmares.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
When engagement is high, that energy spills outward, fueling better customer service, stronger brand loyalty and even helping companies avoid PR nightmares.
—Alyshia Hull, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
While stunningly shot, this is no usual Franz Kafka biopic, with Holland more interested in nightmares than the who, what, when, where and why of a story.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nightmares
Noun
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More than a thousand miles away in New Delhi, Mohammad waits for his daughter, powerless to save her for a second time from the horrors faced by their community in Myanmar.—
Esha Mitra,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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Hard Rock Stadium is a house of horrors for the Patriots dating back to their dynasty days.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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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But current virus variants continue to spread burning throats, fevers and other miseries.—
Grant Stringer,
Mercury News,
8 Sep. 2025
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Task begins by setting up the parallels between Tom and Robbie, two flawed men trying to keep their heads above the water of their own miseries, cutting back and forth between their routines to emphasize their similar ideologies and spontaneities.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Nightmares.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nightmares. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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