terrify
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I could potentially rent out the two other rooms for around $1,000 each to generate extra income, but loans terrify me.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
Day 1 alone might terrify an L.A. commuter: From the Pacific to Pasadena by surface streets, including miles on Santa Monica and Colorado boulevards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
The backrooms seem to exist in part to terrify entrants into redirecting their energies toward better life choices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
He told Salon that equating drug traffickers with terrorist is meant to “stigmatize and terrify people.”
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2026
Katie did not mean to terrify the child.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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"It terrifies me, as a father of a young one myself, that people are out there claiming to be experts when they are not."
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
The Sublime, Edmund Burke wrote in 1757, terrifies in darkness, but when its effects are managed and ordered, we call them beauty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026
“You’re walking into a very, very conflictual relationship with the U.S.—and that terrifies me. But I’m not sure if there’s any way around it. Aren’t we actually already there?”
From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2026
So if I see a really big bridge, like the bridge in Long Beach, going over that terrifies me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
Mr. Benedict puts you at ease, but Mr. Curtain terrifies you.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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I was terrified I would return to prison.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Don’t miss: I’m terrified my sons will give their inheritance to my ex-husband.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026
AI’s creators go from speaking in euphemism to telling us how terrified they are.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Dippold joked that she was terrified thinking that the show might get even more attention with all their Emmy wins.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
I was terrified and dying of curiosity at the same time, but I couldn’t just flee without finishing the job.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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But “that’s a conversation nobody wants to have because falling prices are great for buyers and absolutely terrifying for people who bought at the top,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The warning from police was so terrifying, it was easy to overlook it also was implausible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The group pursuing McNulty was terrifying: Evenepoel, van der Poel, Seixas, del Toro, and others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
"I've got quite a lot of anxiety about it, we talk about it quite a lot... it's terrifying," she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
She heard the whooping first, a terrifying sound echoing from all around her.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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