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terror

[ter-er] / ˈtɛr ər /


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Always media-conscious, Ramírez created a blueprint for the globalization and marketing of terror.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Their terror is no longer the group’s terror.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

Frain said he knows of many terror survivors who can never return to London, as they remain too harrowed what they experienced in attacks.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

Those predators included anacondas, saber toothed mammals, flightless "terror birds" and sebecids, a group of land dwelling relatives of crocodylians.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

But the girl did not look at him with disgust or terror.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

The dark comedy about a New England island beset by supernatural terrors is both exceedingly clever and genuinely terrifying.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

"Now I've started therapy and hopefully that will help the night terrors."

From BBC May 11, 2026

But somehow, I have managed to defy the odds, becoming the rare outlier to not only protect my job from the A.I. monster’s bite but profit from its terrors.

From Slate Mar. 20, 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

The memories, the dreams, all the night terrors blast back into my mind.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles




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