in bad
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When the chairs reach him and his father Anand, they are usually in bad shape with torn cushions and missing legs.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
During the redemption window, neither firm was reporting a surge in bad or risky loans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Further, it claimed that guild management had “surveilled workers for union activity, terminated union supporters, and engaged in bad faith surface bargaining.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2026
But memory stocks like Micron don’t tend to trade at multiples seen elsewhere in the chip sector because investors are thinking about earnings potential not only in good periods but also in bad ones.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 14, 2026
The author defended the killing of good plants “simply because they are in bad company.”
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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