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Terrible in sentence

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This is in response to the awful mobile trailers and the outdated textbooks and the terrible materials that we're building schools out of these days.
And meetings are just toxic, terrible, poisonous things during the day at work.
There's always something: it may sound good up there, may not be so good there; it may be great there, but terrible up there; maybe terrible over there, but not too bad there, etc., etc.
And also, "shattering the glass ceiling" is a terrible phrase.
And they think that means they are so incredibly busy and productive, but the truth is, they're not, because we, at the moment, have had brilliant leaders in business, in finance, in politics, making terrible decisions.
This is a terrible thing, this oil is going to hurt the people in the Gulf."
The bad news is that you only have 24 hours to live." "That's terrible," said the patient.
Mystery number two: Women have been in the Olympics for quite some time now, but one thing that's remarkable about all women sprinters: they all suck; they're terrible.
And they had some, in my opinion, terrible Christmas music.
I'd never been one of the boys my age; terrible at sports, possibly the unmanliest little boy ever.
Well, I don't know about you, but I do not want to live in a world where harsh fluorescent lights, endless lines, terrible forms to fill out and disaffected, soulless bureaucrats remind me that I am pretty damn lucky not to work here.
This is just an excerpt from one of those letters: "My 12 year-old son has autism, and has had a terrible time with math.
It's a terrible sound.
Terrible news for the dinosaurs, but great news for our mammalian ancestors, who flourished in the niches left empty by the dinosaurs.
Perhaps God allows or permits terrible things to happen, so that heroism and compassion can be shown.
I say, "I'm so sorry, boys and girls, but the truth is we have left this world to you in such a sad and terrible shape, and we hope you can fix it for us, and maybe this game will help you learn how to do it."
We're terrible at models that span 80 years.
And this is the reason: in two countries that hadn't had this disease for more than probably a decade, on opposite sides of the globe, there was suddenly terrible polio outbreaks.
Sanitation is terrible, and our old vaccine, you remember, worked half as well as it should have.
It's something terrible, horrible.
It'd be a terrible model for a particle physicist, because they don't play with car stops, they play with these little weird particles.
And people do terrible things in wars.
I'm telling you this story because Archie Cochrane, all his life, fought against a terrible affliction, and he realized it was debilitating to individuals and it was corrosive to societies.
But it has a terrible catch, and the catch is that this system is destined to collapse.
But I want to begin with a story of an unusual and terrible man.
Now Goering was, by all accounts, a terrible man.
Even for a Nazi, he was a terrible man.
And we want to tell our grandchildren that there was a terrible time in history where up to a third of the children had brains and bodies that were stunted, but that exists no more.
I've learned that they're really the essence of what makes for progress, even when they seem to be terrible.
We commit terrible crimes, and we smile at the delight in getting away with it.
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