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horror

[hawr-er, hor-] / ˈhɔr ər, ˈhɒr- /


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Jordan: Now if there’s a good horror or suspense movie out, I might convince Salish to go.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

You think I’m letting my client’s horror movie premiere on the same day as a MrBeast video?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

England's Gabriel Langton said he feared for his future in gymnastics after his horror fall at the Commonwealth Games, but will "definitely be back to it" soon.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

An ex-employee described Robert Bush's funeral parlour as a "horror scene", prosecutor Chris Paxton said at the start of a five-day sentencing hearing.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

It steps over and around the houses, like a giant monster in an old horror film.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Tossing her blond locks like a hair-metal vixen, she’s a needy, greedy, selfie-taking try-hard who — horrors — frets over her own mass appeal.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

Rahela Begum survived the horrors of war in Myanmar and life in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh -- only to end up drifting at sea, clinging to a wooden plank.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

They transformed the unimaginable horrors that began with their theft from their homeland into constitutional principles expansive enough to protect people they would never know and generations they would never live to see.

From Slate Jul. 2, 2026

Callamard, the Amnesty secretary general, said the "world was warned of the horrors that civilians in el-Fasher confronted as the RSF laid siege to the city".

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

I went through the list of horrors so fast that I had to catch my breath.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter




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