terror
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Eduardo Rodrigues Cavalcante, a receptionist at a hotel adjacent to the school, described scenes of terror, as some students tried to jump over a wall separating the school from the hotel.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
Aftershocks filled me with terror, and I wondered if California was telling me I wasn’t welcome.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Beran A. was led into the courtroom by masked police personnel at the start of his trial on terror offences and other charges in a court in Wiener Neustadt, outside Vienna.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
The attack had sent "absolute terror" running through "the entire community across the West Midlands", she said.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026
But to my terror I passed one station after another—heart, lungs, scalp, throat—and still I was in the line.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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