scared
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"Who's going to get on a train now? Now you're scared when you do," said Cecilio, who wants such disasters to never happen again.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
"I don't think we should be scared of any team."
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Hart’s “Meeting Ourselves” is woozy and vaguely threatening, with lines like “Don’t be scared / Open the door” bringing to mind a shadowy Lewis Carroll adventure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Ron says I’m inventing reasons because I’m scared of change.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
Daisy had me so scared by now that I could almost feel myself frothing at the mouth and snapping at everything that got close to me.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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