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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

"We feel responsible for starting to inform society about the rapid and dynamic technological changes which personally frighten us," he told AFP.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

That should frighten audiences — all audiences, even those who only see a handful of movies theatrically in an entire year.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Wildlife experts say human-bear conflicts are the result of people moving deeper into the wildlands, and that bears that wander into neighborhoods are often harmless and easy to frighten.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

What they don’t realize is this: Yes, they frighten me, but I have always been scared, since the day I got here.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

“This is art that both frightens and inspires.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

I have to admit your creativity frightens me a little.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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

Last month, Mr. Ward gave our class an assignment to write a poem about what frightens us most, in honor of Halloween.

From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes

Her advice to Asos customers is not to be "scared and frightened".

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

But despite the typos and inconsistencies in the emails, I understood how such an unsophisticated scam might actually be effective if the mark was sufficiently confused—or frightened.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

A video from the scene released by prosecutors shows animals doubled up in cages, barking and frightened, and over a dozen cats held in a fenced area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Raik, the former mayor, said the sound of drones initially frightened her, but now she’s gotten used to it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

And then there is the sound of one’s own frightened heart, beating much too loudly as one begins to think one has made a dreadful mistake to ever leave the comforts of home.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

Trying to avoid frightening his children, he silently stared into the camera to show the hackers he knew about them and then unplugged the camera.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

At a time when interest rates are rising quickly, there is no end of frightening headlines about how bond prices are falling at the same time, offsetting the benefit of the increased income.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Jeremy Allen White finds the power of social media frightening -- an anxiety he's now confronting in his latest film.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

This aspect mirrors a frightening contemporary pattern reflected in the Cornell case, in which an alleged Snapchat thread from the Chi Phi house is presented as evidence.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

If she paused, the current rocked the boat in a frightening way.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer