frighten
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Chinese officials first tried to frighten Ms. Takaichi off such a hawkish line with insulting rhetoric.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
But it does hint strongly at extraterrestrial visitors being revealed to humankind with a tagline: "If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?"
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025
Sanctions still hurt the targeted country, but they no longer frighten the market, especially if loosely enforced.
From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025
That is what cinema is all about, an indefinable presence, faces full of expression, voices that cannot be easily replicated, eyes that channel energy that can move and frighten and surprise us.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025
He could neither frighten nor humiliate Fielding, because his temperament would reject all of it without trouble, he would not bring out the worst in Hooper, as Kingshaw himself did.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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