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

He told Salon that equating drug traffickers with terrorist is meant to “stigmatize and terrify people.”

From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2026

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

Katie Gauche, of the Disabled Children's Partnership, said the idea of scrapping plans will "terrify families".

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2025

What’s so odd is that even with Frida and the toxoplasmosis and this man who should terrify me for so many reasons, I feel more at home than I have anywhere for so long.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

"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

The Sublime, Edmund Burke wrote in 1757, terrifies in darkness, but when its effects are managed and ordered, we call them beauty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 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

“I can’t even think about my life tonight. The drive home scares me. Coming to campus scares me. Walking from my car terrifies me. I live my life between breaths.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

They’re hiding the threats from me because they want to protect me, but deep down, in their own way, they each believe I’m beyond their protection, and it terrifies them.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

A leading emergency doctor has said she is "completely terrified" about upcoming winter pressures on Scotland's already-stretched NHS.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

A Times reporter in Long Beach said it woke up them up and terrified their pet cat, which hid under a dining room table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Mohammed, a 33-year-old charity worker who fled from Mocha to the city of Aden, told AFP that "people there are terrified" of the Houthis.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

"I was terrified I was going to lose my sight over a bit of excess skin," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

I’m terrified of what’s waiting for us there.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

"It's terrifying," she said, before adding in an apparent plea to authorities: "Please, I'm begging you, do something to stop this."

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

Joshua Robinson caught up with Norway’s 6-foot-5 striker on terrifying his opponents—and the surreal World Cup summer that turned him into much more than a soccer star.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Her device is how she stays connected to the world, so taking that away is the most terrifying thing,” Eaves said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

London Victims' Commissioner Andrea Simon said the exemptions "have not included some offenders whose imminent release is a genuinely terrifying prospect for their victims".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Fanny screamed in an endless howling, terrifying wail that woke her brother Augustus, who was sleeping in a room nearby.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson