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terrible event

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meanings of terribleand event


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terrible
adjective
uk /ˈter.ə.bəl/ us /ˈter.ə.bəl/
very unpleasant or serious or of ...
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event
noun[C]
uk /ɪˈvent/ us /ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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Examples of terrible event


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Survivors and relatives of the deceased will want a thorough investigation, to find out how such a terribleevent came to pass.
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Previous legislation could not have taken into account that terribleevent, so we must surely accept that this is, indeed, emergency legislation.
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It is not generally a dangerous or inner city area with noted problems, so even greater is the shock of such a terribleevent.
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The evidence of how the whole of the globalised world has been touched by this terribleevent also makes a deep impression.
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It is much better to prevent an incident than to indulge in even the most important inquiries that we often have after a terribleevent.
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Of course, nothing would wipe out the terribleevent from the boy's mind, as was subsequently shown.
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I am delighted that the security forces have been able to prevent that terribleevent.
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We would have preferred to work out the problems for ourselves and not have had them worked out for us by such a terribleevent.
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Those families have undergone terrible trauma and have been most constructive in their attitude since that terribleevent some years ago.
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Should that terribleevent ever occur, we should be faced on the first day of hostilities, not with 52 submarines against us, but with 274.
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Some people look back on the end of that era as a terribleevent, but in fact its breakdown was inevitable.
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It was the latest and most terribleevent in the violent history of the past 30 years.
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It was a tribute to his remarkable courage—a courage that he has displayed every day since that terribleevent.
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The facts of this terribleevent are not yet fully known.
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The most terribleevent at which these preparations are aimed might be the event for which people say we are not prepared to be prepared.
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If surplus quantities of paint are sold, and the result is to reduce the price, that does not seem to me to be a very terribleevent.
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We are considering a terribleevent.
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On this occasion, it was not thought that it was appropriate or helpful, but that did not in any way diminish our horror of and concern about that terribleevent.
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The alternative is to put the child through the trauma of giving evidence and recapitulating a terribleevent in a way that is likely to be damaging and distressing.
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After many years of silence, testimonies of the suffering call for our attention, together with the accounts of many survivors who found themselves caught up in that terribleevent.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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