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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

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

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

And the fact that Bruce Springsteen kicked off his classic 1978 album “Darkness on the Edge of Town” with a song called “Badlands” would frighten most heartland rock artists away from attempting the same.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

I wanted to scream it out, whether to confess or frighten, I don’t know.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

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

Desai: It looked at year end like Kevin Hassett’s star was on the rise, but none of the names discussed frightens me.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

She has the hard look that frightens me.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

People living next to a quarry say their homes shake, pictures fall off the wall and their children are frightened each time huge rocks are blasted.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

He was pained and frightened: He’d never seen such a thing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

“I played that like she was genuinely frightened because she was caught off-guard,” Morton says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

A place outsiders might dismiss as decadent was also where money was raised, grief was gathered and a frightened community turned nightlife into a lifeline.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

Couldn’t she see how frightened and frustrated he was?

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

It inherently asks us to consume these people and needs us to in order to make money, but sometimes consumers want to unhinge their jaws and eat these stars whole, a frightening and unsettling behavior.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

Despite the frightening image of spiders presented in movies such as Arachnophobia, most species pose no danger to people.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

COVID-19 created the conditions in which conspiracy theories flourish: enormous uncertainty, frightening consequences, rapidly changing information and distrust of institutions.

From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026

That frightening detail comes from Sydney Croasmun, vice president of the Ridge Route preservation group.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

There’s one channel that has nothing but the most frightening shows about wild animals attacking one another.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney