menace

In adapting the premise for TV, series creator Nick Antosca dilutes the movies’ naked menace by pouring reasonable doubt into both Max’s profile and that of the Bowdens, the married lawyers behind his downfall.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Meanwhile, Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi, arguably the world's best right back, was a constant menace both on the ball and in the Canadian players' faces, while creative fulcrum Brahim Diaz claimed two assists.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

Popular culture has often portrayed the species as a dangerous menace, contributing to a reputation that many scientists argue is exaggerated.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026

The report defines “forced labor” as “all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty for its nonperformance and for which the worker does not offer himself voluntarily.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

It was as if the Forest was slowly emptying; the prey fleeing from the unseen menace.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

These might be helpful, anodyne retail chatbots; they also might be utter menaces like Google Docs’ Gemini pop-up.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

EU officials said that as part of the efforts they want to step up the mandatory registration of drones across the bloc to be able to better keep track of potential menaces.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

The book’s most edifying compilations recount the Soviet people’s unconquerable yearning to live, create and love freely, despite the daily menaces of a police state and deafening propaganda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

Given the twin menaces of global warming and pandemic threats, “the reality, now, is that human civilization is in actual grave danger.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

Speaking from the White House, President Eisenhower said he sent troops because “Mob rule in Little Rock menaces the very safety of the United States and the free world.”

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals

Sporting what they regard as a face “the color of boiled turnips,” he is first discovered sitting on a steamer trunk in the hall, ripe to be menaced by the family’s dogs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

Even when the whole family is menaced, as in “Poltergeist,” the evil entities have a special yearning to possess little blonde girls.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025

Just when I thought things were losing steam, someone got menaced in an actual steam room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

Sharks still loom large in the public imagination as deadly man-eaters, thanks to the 1975 blockbuster Jaws, in which a great white shark menaced swimmers off the coast of Massachusetts.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2023

The constant wave of tropical storms and hurricanes that menaced coastal Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida in the summer of 2004 turned their relaxed Southern coastal life into an apocalyptic struggle for survival.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

My inbox recently has been full of enthusiastic, and occasionally menacing, fans, wondering why I hadn’t tested Garmin, their favorite wrist-computer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

In this sense, the Backrooms reveal how digital culture is beginning to reshape experiences traditionally associated with tourism, allowing for the mundane to become menacing.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Truelove was arraigned Friday on charges of burglary and menacing in the third degree as hate crimes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

“War of the Worlds” turned them back into the menacing aggressors of 1950s sci-fi films like “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” and “Invaders From Mars.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

The quiet glade, the sun on the alders, seemed suddenly menacing.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander