worst nightmare
noun
: the thing someone fears most
Losing a child is every parent's worst nightmare.
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For someone with arachnophobia, this sounds like a worst nightmare.
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Simon Makin, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2024
During an early October camping trip with her family in upstate New York last year, Trisha Sena experienced every parent's worst nightmare.
—Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2024
The Haitian Revolution has been described by scholars as the realization of white slave owners’ worst nightmare: Black rule.
—Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús / Made By History, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
In the women’s corner, Jodi frets that this type of elimination is her worst nightmare.
—Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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Simon Makin, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2024
During an early October camping trip with her family in upstate New York last year, Trisha Sena experienced every parent's worst nightmare.
—Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 14 Oct. 2024
The Haitian Revolution has been described by scholars as the realization of white slave owners’ worst nightmare: Black rule.
—Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús / Made By History, TIME, 4 Oct. 2024
In the women’s corner, Jodi frets that this type of elimination is her worst nightmare.
—Emma Sharpe, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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“Worst nightmare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worst%20nightmare. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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