scary
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With Canada this summer, scary pictures won out over compelling statistics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Adornment is at its best when it feels wild and uncontained; when it’s both scary and intriguing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
He aims for "honesty" within his music, which also means admitting it was "scary" to ask Brit-award winner Dave to feature on his new album.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
But trauma triggers can be an issue when conception happens outside a clinic, in the context of a loving relationship—and they can be scary to deal with.
From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026
My body was shaking, yet I was stiff, like whenever Dad let me watch scary movies.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
Did anything else happen today that is extremely relevant to this topic but in a much scarier way?
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
What seems scarier: the body going or the mind going?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
On the scarier side, Wright says there's another place we can already see the combination of robotics and agentic AI: battlefield drones.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
“What’s even scarier than the skepticism around actual AI is that a lot of people are assuming real stuff is AI.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
I’ve never seen anything scarier in my whole life.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
KAMPALA, Uganda—The scariest thing about the Ebola strain ripping through East Africa this year might be rather surprising: It isn’t quite as lethal as those in earlier outbreaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
"And the scariest thing is for the children. My children are just very afraid."
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
The girls' school said on Facebook that the "scariest face of war is the children's lives it takes".
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Without my boyfriend’s paycheck buffering our vibes-based accounting, it was time to face the scariest part of managing your money: the spending audit.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026
She was the tallest and the strongest and the scariest girl in all of the fifth grade.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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Unit 18, Lesson 1
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