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The phrase "a terrible team" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a sports team, work group, or any collective that is performing poorly or not meeting expectations. Example: "After losing every game this season, it's clear that we are a terrible team."
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He was an underachieving player on a terrible team a year ago.
Nashville is not a terrible team.
Too bad the Rangers are such a terrible team.
Georgia Tech merely wanted to prove it was not a terrible team.
He runs a terrible team and is clearly bored by the machinations of the salary cap.
He led a terrible team to two victories, and no one started ahead of him again.
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And then there was an otherwise unnoteworthy game at Citi Field, played by a hopelessly terrible team, that was turned into an event almost anyone could root for: Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey winning his 20th game, the ultimate nice-ordinary-guy-makes-good story.
Still, a few female bosses were terrible team players while a handful of male bosses couldn't make a quick decision if they're lives depended on it.
It was a tabloid spectacle: an executive frustrated that a fan was mocking his terrible team.
And my first year was the first year of the Mets, which was a great fan story, just a fabulous fan story — this terrible team was taken up by New York, who came and blew horns and yelled, "Let's go, Mets".
And of course that quarterback leading his terrible team to a chock full o' flubs win over an even worse NFL team doesn't matter.
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