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He shepherds his wards through the landscape of their degradation, helping to set rules for coexistence—how to share scarce food, for instance, and their hellishly tight space—and teaching them to rise above their humiliation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

US and Soviet robotic missions in the 1960s and 1970s had revealed that Venus — once thought to be a haven for exotic organisms — was hellishly hot beneath its dense clouds of carbon dioxide.

From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023

Nicolas Cage plays the hellishly demanding boss, in a movie that spoofs the way co-dependent relationships can drag on through a lifetime, becoming all-consuming.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2023

In the past week - one described as hellishly difficult by BBC News NI health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly - it was reported that an inquiry is taking place into eight deaths after ambulance delays.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2023

How had he gotten there so hellishly fast?

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia