scare
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Her remarkable lack of experience may help explain why Graham didn’t scare anyone out of the race when she announced her plan to keep the seat.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
A scare occurred Saturday at Los Angeles Southwest College in San Pedro, where a loud noise triggered a stampede out of the stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
The losingest jersey in sports masked five no-funny-business basketball players who could give superstars a scare.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
Is he trying to scare parents into not inoculating children?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
She lost a lot of her scare; but not quite all of it.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
It’s someone who kind of scares you and kind of raises your game and demands, you know, a kind of a better tennis game, although I’ve never played tennis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
To be clear, that example about ambulances scares me, too.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
He has also survived health scares, notably a fall in his bathroom in 2024 that caused a brain bleed.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
In the 50 years that have followed, audiences have become somewhat less susceptible to scares, but no less susceptible to phenomena.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
And then there is a knock at the door that scares me out of my wits.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
But Ren said there are nights when his daughter refuses to sleep and tells him she's scared.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
"I'm just scared when he gets older, when he starts crawling around, I can't even allow him to crawl in such a place like that because it's so dirty," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
That we see the group start scared for their lives, and then watch as they embrace their place in the infinite agony to the point that it becomes comical, is remarkable.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
After all, people have been scared to let managers see anything non-work-related on their screens since personal computers first arrived in offices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Seeing her so sad and unable to leave the house scared him.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
A series of military exercises taking place in empty buildings across the Southland are scaring residents and rattling neighbors as the sound of gunfire rings out in the dark and troops descend from helicopters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
"It was just a way for them to sound smart, and I really hate that. I think we're scaring people and that's irresponsible," he said.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
In a radio interview Tuesday, he warned Mamdani against scaring off wealthy people like the Citadel chief executive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
StepChange said this was counterproductive, scaring people who can't, rather than won't, pay.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026
Because I’m pretty sure only a croak would emerge, scaring him off.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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