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"It's too late for me, and it's not about scaremongering, but I want to make people aware of the risks out there," she said.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2025

"Currently with all the scaremongering and sensationalising they're not doing that."

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2024

And while safety is at the core of such decisions, we should be cautious of scaremongering, says UniSA shark expert Dr Brianna Le Busque.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2023

In aggregate, spates of space-weather scaremongering are easy to predict because they’re usually tied to solar activity itself, which follows a roughly 11-year cycle.

From Scientific American • Jan. 26, 2023

But Mr. Punch, with many others, has no sympathy to spare for the sorrows of the headline artist deprived for the time being of his chief opportunity of scaremongering.

From Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Graves, Charles L. (Charles Larcom)