the bad

noun

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

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Markets, though, largely ignored the bad news, with stock market futures poised for a strong open on Wall Street while Treasury yields plunged. Jeff Cox, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024 Solo home run; the bad streak is over; the rest was history. Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2024 And many remember the bad vibes from the infamous Fyre Festival fiasco, a lavish getaway concert in 2017 that collapsed in a sea of mud and was anything but a VIP experience. Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2024 The cast of Melrose Place is getting down to the good, the bad and the dirty! Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 14 Sep. 2024 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 8 Nov. 2024.

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