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

Traveling through the handiwork of the fire for so long made an unseeable menace more terrifying.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2026

The District of Columbia teems with nonprofits dedicated to the proposition that one thing or another menaces the citizenry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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

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

Holding kids deemed menaces to society in a place that would be completely normal if not for the twelve-foot barbed-wire-topped fences seems like someone’s bad idea of a joke.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

Trade barriers to Chinese goods are rising, and its own economy is menaced by deflation, the outgrowth of its rampant production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

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

After all, they inhabited a precarious cosmos where the prospect of drought menaced entire civilizations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2024

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 Colonel turned, swift as a wasp’s sting, and menaced into the gloom.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

I've come to an industrial space in a tech-heavy area of San Francisco expecting to see a menacing humanoid robot solider doing something combat-like: the future of land-based warfare, perhaps.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

And so Sam it was, but an eagle that was more comical than menacing, so as not to scare the kiddies and customers — a happy raptor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Looking like a life jacket thrown into a car compactor, the work weaves a floppy beam of hazard-orange steel around and through a menacing conglomeration of rusty metal scraps.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Hearts, who had been chasing a first title since 1960, made the decision to make a hasty exit from the stadium, citing a "menacing and threatening atmosphere".

From BBC ● May 17, 2026

The blue shadows of late afternoon were menacing now.

From "Chasing Vermeer" by Blue Balliett