terrify

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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

This one was how can we only use dialogue to provoke, terrify and generate suspense.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024

The sum effect is to silence and terrify and isolate people who need to be able to ask for help in the midst of a crisis.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2024

Still, if a team of experts had set out to create a human being to maximize the likelihood that he would terrify a Wall Street customer, they might have designed something like Lippmann.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis