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He also played a chilling video of House members instructing one another to take off their identifying lapel pins.

HOUSE IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS EMPHASIZE THE DANGER TO PENCE AND OTHER TOP OFFICIALS IN HARROWING RETELLING OF JAN. 6 ATTACKAMY GARDNER, KAROUN DEMIRJIAN, FELICIA SONMEZ, PAUL KANEFEBRUARY 11, 2021WASHINGTON POST

It’s a chilling, truly absorbing film with big implications for the future.

4 NEW MOVIES THAT EXPLORE — OR PREDICT — A YEAR DOMINATED BY A PANDEMICALISSA WILKINSONFEBRUARY 5, 2021VOX

When that’s what gets her fired, it’s a pretty chilling message to send to your employees.

AN IDAHO NEWSPAPER EDITOR STRUGGLED TO GET EXCEL ACCESS FOR STAFF. AFTER TWEETING ABOUT IT, SHE WAS FIRED.TEO ARMUSJANUARY 26, 2021WASHINGTON POST

As the world watched rioters take over the US Capitol on January 6, the lack of security was chilling.

POLICE ARE FLYING SURVEILLANCE OVER WASHINGTON. WHERE WERE THEY LAST WEEK?TATE RYAN-MOSLEYJANUARY 18, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

“The government now wants a do-over, sending a chilling warning to American business that no sale is ever final,” she said.

U.S., STATES SUE FACEBOOK AS AN ILLEGAL MONOPOLY, SETTING STAGE FOR POTENTIAL BREAKUPTONY ROMMDECEMBER 9, 2020WASHINGTON POST

In doing so, she expressed fears the hearing itself threatened to have a “chilling effect on the very important aspects of making sure hate speech and misinformation related to health and public safety are allowed to remain on the Internet.”

FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, TWITTER CEOS CLASH WITH CONGRESS IN PRE-ELECTION SHOWDOWNTONY ROMM, RACHEL LERMAN, CAT ZAKRZEWSKI, HEATHER KELLY, ELIZABETH DWOSKINOCTOBER 28, 2020WASHINGTON POST

It was very chilling to hear this theme over and over again.

“PEOPLE WANT TO BELIEVE”: HOW LOVE FRAUD BUILDS AN ABSORBING DOCUSERIES AROUND A ROMANTIC CON MANALISSA WILKINSONSEPTEMBER 4, 2020VOX

It sent a chilling message about what had happened at that time in a society, suggesting that we were each of us not simply in danger, but fundamentally alone.

5 PSYCHOLOGY TERMS YOU’RE PROBABLY MISUSING (EP. 334 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 9, 2020FREAKONOMICS

The night wind sweeps across the cheerless park, chilling us to the bone.

PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMAN

There is something cold and chilling in the supports which pride and philosophy alone can afford under the calamities of life.

MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT

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