How to Use the bad in a Sentence
the bad
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There’s the good, the bad and the ugly kind of thing going on.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2023
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And the sad part of that is, the bad guys aren't giving up their guns.
—Emma Colton, Fox News, 10 Feb. 2024
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Now, these are not the bad guys, the criminals that you are warned about by the NRA.
—Abc News, ABC News, 6 May 2024
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The obvious starting point of this film was that AI was the bad guy.
—Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
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But the bad news is that the headphone jack that held on for so long in the Pixel A-series is now gone.
—Brandon Widder, The Verge, 1 Apr. 2023
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Even in those moments, Bailey sought a balance between the good and the bad.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
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Passover is about the imperative to remember, both the good and the bad.
—Lee Cowan, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2023
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No one seriously disputes that the Nazis are the bad guys.
—TIME, 8 May 2024
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There’s a lot more about Frederick Douglass here than there is about the bad guys of slavery.
—Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 17 Apr. 2023
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Her world has been destroyed, and the bad guys responsible are still out there.
—Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
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Marc Jacobs and John Galliano, the bad boys of ’90s grunge and glamour, have been in recovery for years.
—Nick Haramis Lise Sarfati Delphine Danhier, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
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The owners broke the bad news: The painting had long been regarded as a knockoff by the family.
—Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
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The motivation of the bad actor doesn’t emerge just from code forensics.
—Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
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The good Fortunately for Auburn, the good outweighed the bad in Saturday’s win.
—Ainslie Lee | Alee@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2023
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From a transparency perspective, the bad news in this case is that the public won’t know who rendered the verdict here.
—Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2023
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Now, here's the bad news: There are many wrong ways and decisions, both small and large, can mess with the harmony of any family trip.
—Christine Sarkis, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
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The cows play an important role on the farm, eating grass, fertilizing the land and ensuring the bad dates don’t go to waste.
—Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2023
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People are ashamed of their misdeeds, and this constitutes suffering, which makes up for the bad deeds.
—Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2023
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Sure, there’s plenty of suspense, intrigue and red herrings, but there’s also stakeouts, injuries and jumping fences to catch, or even get away from, the bad guys.
—Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
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Featuring the good, the bad and the ugly, 'Look of the Week' is a regular series dedicated to unpacking the most talked about outfit of the last seven days.
—Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 4 Apr. 2023
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After accepting the job on the Plains, Freeze only had the opportunity to review cutups of each quarterbacks’ film, the good and the bad.
—Tom Green | Tgreen@al.com, al, 9 Apr. 2023
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After a career of iconic, empowering roles, Viola Davis is ready to be the bad guy.
—Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Nov. 2023
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Pathogens: These are the bad guys, like Salmonella and E. coli, that can cause foodborne illness if milk isn’t handled properly.
—Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 12 Feb. 2024
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Due to the bad weather, Trump had to cancel three out of his four in-person commit to caucus rallies and will instead hold a series of telerallies.
—Galen Druke, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2024
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Its efforts could help build a roadmap on how democracies balance the good and the bad of artificial intelligence.
—Fahad Shah, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2024
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And the culture around the narco business is super-important, because there’s this tendency to see it in very binary terms of good guys versus bad guys, i.e. governments are the good guys and traffickers are the bad guys.
—Los Angeles Times En Español, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
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But the bad alleged behavior of the leaders at Brandy Melville went beyond discrimination, experts in the documentary said.
—Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
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The four of them then began working on a script together, weaving Bill and Matho’s narratives — along with the good, the bad, and the nurturing aspects of the Indigenous community at large — into something like a mural.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2023
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Lupus is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system mistakes healthy tissues as foreign invaders and attacks them rather than targeting the bad bacteria and viruses.
—Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
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Polsky peppers the film with Will’s dreams and hallucinations, sequences that resemble nothing so much as the bad LSD trips in drug-centric 1960s exploitation flicks, and are more annoying than illuminating.
—Joe Leydon, Variety, 21 Oct. 2023
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