terror
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The US has withdrawn all of its bombers from RAF Fairford, the British military base at the centre of an incident being investigated by counter terror police.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
A senior U.A.E. political figure and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the near-downing as a terror plot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Plus, the U.A.E is investigating whether the cockpit stabbing on a FlyDubai flight was a terror plot and Americans are buying smaller cars as gas prices bite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear her claim that “the mental suffering and psychological terror she will experience under Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol is cognizable under the Eighth Amendment.”
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
Was this obsequious creature the terrible-voiced terror of the women’s wing?
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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At around age 19 or 20, he began having regular night terrors and daily flashbacks to “horrific, nightmarish things.”
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Now adults, they talk of growing up with night terrors and the burden of constantly being seen as victims of a historic disaster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Perhaps deep in the movie’s own subterranean basement of ideas, “Hokum” is a modern take on Ebenezer Scrooge’s night terrors, only I wouldn’t put much stock in Scott’s malcontent turning his life around.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
“Sinners” is a meditation on how the past’s crimes and terrors bleed into the present, rendered by a Black artist using a popular genre, horror, as half of his canvas.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2026
It seemed to make him feel like he was doing what a father should, plucking up his daughter’s courage, helping her face the terrors of the unknown.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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