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Terrible in sentence

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They've chosen a project by Daniel Libeskind, the enfant terrible of the moment of architecture.
It's a terrible experience for people.
They began to understand that as the upper levels of the hills were denuded of trees, so you've got this terrible soil erosion and mudslides.
And everywhere there were these terrible problems.
That's the question I get asked as I'm going around the world: "Jane, you've seen so many terrible things, you've seen your chimpanzees decrease in number from about one million, at the turn of the century, to no more than 150,000 now, and the same with so many other animals.
We just flush all this water down the lavatory, it's terrible.
Well, the book came out in October, and nothing terrible has happened.
Well, the night is young, but the book has been out for half a year, and nothing terrible has happened.
Dementia is a terrible disease, and we still don't have any cure for it.
And the attitudes there were terrible.
And the reason that the attitudes were terrible there was because everyone who was sent there understood they were being sent there as punishment.
People become connected to their community when the court changes, like the 50-something-year-old man who told me, "Community service was terrible, Judge.
I think, obviously, you just mentioned the terrible statistics of two female presidents in the whole of Africa.
Do they have less or more plants in suburban areas with lawns that look nice for people but they're terrible for pollinators?
And this was nine months after terrible terrorist bombings that had ripped London apart.
I know that, I'm fully aware that all day, every day, all around the world, terrible things are happening.
But terrible things are happening, people are experiencing deeply formative and traumatic losses every day.
And if they survive, the reader is left with no feeling of triumph, only cosmic indifference– the terrible sense that we are but insignificant specks at the mercy of unfathomable forces.
I don't sleep that much, and I've come to this thing about, like, not sleeping much as being a great virtue, after years of kind of battling it as being a terrible detriment or something.
I talked to my wife, and despite the terrible news and the fight ahead, we both concluded that we regret nothing.
But racism, sexism, bullying, environmental destruction, those things are real, those things are terrible, and the only way to fix them is to get mad first and then channel that anger into fighting back.
And what was so funny and so terrible was, of course, I thought I asked people to simmer down on needing an explanation for the bad things that happened.
People are certain it is a test of my character or proof of something terrible I've done.
I see that the world is jolted by events that are wonderful and terrible, gorgeous and tragic.
So we can fairly say, knife: terrible; gun: way worse.
Because it looks like those terrible geodesic domes of my late beloved '60s, they're called "buckyballs."
It was a terrible trauma for her.
And for better or worse, we take all that onboard, and then we go out into the world thinking maybe we have to be successful to be loved; or that we always have to put other people's needs first; or that we have some big terrible secret we couldn't possible tell people.
A terrible disease.
Now, baldness, it's a terrible thing.
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