frighteningly
Example Sentences
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What made it such an effective thriller was that it all seemed so frighteningly real.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
It is manufactured every day—and rests on a frighteningly fragile system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
But while his fever eventually lifted, frighteningly intense cognitive symptoms descended.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2026
The patchwork system that supplies blood and blood products to operating rooms, delivery suites, and ERs like mine can be frighteningly brittle.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2025
But there is frighteningly little evidence that his strategy was the crime panacea that he and the media deemed it.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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