menace
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Bassist and singer Geddy Lee, his voice eerily well-preserved for a 72-year-old, rode the contours of these numbers with electrifying menace and character, justifying all the risks inherent in this reunion tour.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 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
"There's some menace, there's this animal component in Max Cady that has always been there, that is so physical," Bardem told journalists ahead of the June 5 series' release on Apple TV.
From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026
They carried on, but they were struggling, pushed back all the time by the gathering menace in green and white.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
But even men far tougher and more attuned to the wilderness than Thoreau were sobered by its strange and palpable menace.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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