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We should take the warnings of Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Geoffrey Hinton and others seriously without allowing fears about tomorrow’s frontier systems to frighten us from responsibly using today’s technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

First used by Ottoman military "mehter" bands to frighten and demoralise the enemy, cymbals were a useful tool for an empire on the warpath.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Fireworks can frighten animals and send them scattering, but Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets apparently are made of sterner stuff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

He’s a student of life as much as he is filmmaking, a humanist who forges connections with spectacular sights of the things that frighten and fascinate us the most.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

He would have used it to frighten Kingshaw, if the new idea hadn't come to him.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill

What frightens Ms. Stern most isn’t simply that the AfD might become stronger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

What frightens scientists more than the sheer numbers are that the cuts are arbitrary and manifestly pernicious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

It frightens me how painfully ironic it feels to cover a film about my industry’s demise when it was “The Devil Wears Prada” that pointed me here in the first place.

From Salon ● May 1, 2026

I’m not here to persuade you to fly if it frightens you that much.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

I don’t know what it is or where I got it, but I know they want to take it away from me and that frightens me.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

In the story’s climax, a frightened Ichabod encounters the terrible spirit on the way home from a party—or is it Brom, playing an elaborate prank?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Witnesses are frightened, and the police aren’t the only organisation trying to talk to them.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Speaking to Italian news agency Ansa, he said he witnessed "smashed shop windows, looted stores, and frightened citizens", adding that "what happened here is what we are seeing in many cities around the world".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, said that he had witnessed "smashed shop windows, looted stores, and frightened citizens".

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

It was unusual to see so many pikas at once, but that shouldn’t have frightened him.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

The frightening truth is that I have no clear idea where I will go or what I will do when I can no longer care for myself.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Other Mommy promises to nurture Bela, but clearly she represents the worst type of matriarch imaginable: one who is frightening, controlling and dangerous.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Ciara Squires, a 34-year-old nurse, said she had also seen at least two people outside her window and found it frightening to return home because people were often loitering outside.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Ocker’s “Chasing the Headless Horseman” pursues the origins and cultural legacy of a frightening figure who has a genesis closer to home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

“Creepy-crawly—wherever do you learn these expressions, Margaret? At least dead animals stay where you put them. They don’t go skittering around beneath your chair and frightening you half to death!”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood