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hair-raising

[hair-rey-zing] / ˈhɛərˌreɪ zɪŋ /


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“I don’t believe this is hair raising crazy stuff that everybody’s making it out to be,” she said of the Thomas email.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 1, 2022

Each landing is genuinely hair raising, with aircraft routinely approaching the runway sideways as they’re buffeted by the wind measuring in excess of 60mph.

From The Verge • Feb. 18, 2022

“These events are hair raising for me and passengers, let alone for a driver behind me,” one owner wrote in a report to the agency.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2022

It was hair raising, that feeling was absolutely incredible.”

From The Guardian • Nov. 5, 2015

And with Callahan's copper hair raising higher at every letter, this came from Ogalalla: "Heavy gust caught twelve coal cars on side track, sent them out on main line off down the grade."

From The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories by Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton)




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