scary
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"It's scary," she says, "because I don't want to have to rely on them for the rest of my life."
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
One part is that it’s terrifying because there’s no buffer between me and them, so that’s actually scary, but I embrace it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
It’s a horror-comedy that’s both very much funny and scary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Instead, he projects “a period of scary recession fears, intense enough to cause an S&P 500 correction and an S&P 500 technology sector bear market before the end of this year.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
A few minutes ago the room had looked scary.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
Did anything else happen today that is extremely relevant to this topic but in a much scarier way?
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 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
How do you make a film scary when every waking day is scarier?
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
Joining NFL team without a good QB is scarier than showing up to Day One in your underpants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
Jason decided there was nothing in the world scarier than a gang of bat-wielding grannies.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
"And the scariest thing is for the children. My children are just very afraid."
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Less than a year ago, Boston superstar Jayson Tatum suffered basketball’s scariest injury.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Abi, who is from Manchester, struggles with health anxiety and finds a chatbot gives more tailored advice than an internet search, which will often take her straight to the scariest possibilities.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 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
“That was the scariest thing I’ve done since...well, since last night, when I did about five hundred scary things I never thought I’d do.”
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
Vocabulary lists containing scary
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Unit 18, Lesson 1
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