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We've been having hellish weather lately.
The battlefield was a hellish scene of death and destruction.
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After the discovery of Venus' true nature, when a planet thought to be a swampy, humid world was revealed as a hellish place of intense pressure and searing temperatures, Mars seemed almost welcoming.
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Rod Pyle, Space.com, 14 July 2025
Badwater is renowned not just for its distance but for its hellish conditions, with temperatures often soaring above 120 degrees and runners reporting hallucinations, blood blisters and feet swollen three sizes beyond normal.
—James Rainey
follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
Defense attorneys have also long denounced the hellish conditions at the severely understaffed jail, which has seen several fatal stabbings and many violent assaults.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 10 July 2025
The crew arrives only to find the hellish torments that have plagued Captain Kilpack and the first crew that disappeared for seven years.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
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Rod Pyle, Space.com, 14 July 2025
Badwater is renowned not just for its distance but for its hellish conditions, with temperatures often soaring above 120 degrees and runners reporting hallucinations, blood blisters and feet swollen three sizes beyond normal.
—James Rainey
follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
Defense attorneys have also long denounced the hellish conditions at the severely understaffed jail, which has seen several fatal stabbings and many violent assaults.
—Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 10 July 2025
The crew arrives only to find the hellish torments that have plagued Captain Kilpack and the first crew that disappeared for seven years.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
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“Hellish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hellish. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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