terrify
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Day 1 alone might terrify an L.A. commuter: From the Pacific to Pasadena by surface streets, including miles on Santa Monica and Colorado boulevards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
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
Zak Brown, the chief executive officer of McLaren Racing, has called him "relentless" and likened him to a horror movie character who keeps coming back to life to terrify his victims.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
Now the land itself, the only one they knew and knew intimately, began to terrify them.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
“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
“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
Eastwood said that "incel culture" terrifies and disturbs her.
From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2025
The idea of exchanging phone numbers just terrifies me.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
For more than a decade it has been a frontline, the first Greek soil that exhausted, terrified people touch when they cross from Turkey in boats that were never built for open water.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
Having returned to Ghana's capital, Accra, in May, Asamoah tells the BBC that the encounter left him terrified.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
And the rest of baseball should probably be terrified.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Volunteers on Wednesday rescued a terrified baby deer from a garden.
From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026
If the terrified parrot harbored any plans to continue its performance, they were now abandoned.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
After a few dates, being seen not only for who I was but for who I had been became quickly terrifying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
This one is new, surprising, secretly brilliant—and completely terrifying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
The effects of a terrifying or life-threatening experience can continue long after the immediate danger has passed.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Once a fatal and terrifying diagnosis, scientific breakthroughs and massive funding efforts have transformed HIV into a manageable disease for millions of people.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
The idea of playing Duke a little longer was terrifying.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
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