terrify

The backrooms seem to exist in part to terrify entrants into redirecting their energies toward better life choices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

"Either to terrify the residents and force them to move," he said, "or to put pressure on the Lebanese army to confront people."

From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2025

Here’s the part that should terrify everyone buying “AI-powered trading systems” in 2025: Even now, with every firm on Wall Street running the same technology, Medallion still beats them.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 15, 2025

“I’ve come to view Jesus the way I’ve come to view Elvis. I love the guy, but some of the fan clubs terrify me.”

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025

Questions from South Korean bank tellers, whom they meet on field trips to open bank accounts, often terrify defectors.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

"Some of these dogs shouldn't be going home… that terrifies me, that they're going to be coming back in. And dogs have gone home that have bitten and come back," he says.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2026

“You’re walking into a very, very conflictual relationship with the U.S.—and that terrifies me. But I’m not sure if there’s any way around it. Aren’t we actually already there?”

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2026

“As both a gun owner and an American citizen, this terrifies me.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

As Sailor settles into her new job on Alcatraz, she begins to shake things up, which both thrills and terrifies Camille, who has always kept her head down and followed the rules.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025

Suddenly, the thought of leaving forever terrifies me.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

When he woke up after his crash, Mark was terrified his "life was over" and feared he would be reliant on his parents for the rest of his life.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

The night before Lee’s first day on Aug. 3, she couldn’t sleep, terrified she would miss her alarm.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Abu Ridi said he was hoping to stay in the house on Monday night, which left him "terrified".

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

There’s a culture at the time of lavish gift-giving to diplomats and foreign officials, and he’s just terrified that officers of the United States will be beholden and influenced by foreigners.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

We scramble down a dark stairway, smashed within a mass of terrified people.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

In early July, terrifying shrieks were heard across Kyiv.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

Olsen: I’m thinking about something like the episode that’s mostly on a boat, that gets very sort of slapstick-y at moments, but then there’s still something very terrifying about what’s happening there.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

"Everything came crashing down. It was terrifying," Cristina Ruiz Lopez, a lab worker who was at a supermarket in Granada when the earthquake hit, wrote on X.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Outside the centre, Yana Ludwig, who was travelling alone on the train from London to Lewes, said the experience as "completely terrifying".

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026

But the paper stares back up at me, blindingly blank like the terrifying unknowns of my new fate.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo