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terrorize

[ter-uh-rahyz] / ˈtɛr əˌraɪz /


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Imagine that, this driven personality in a Clippers uniform, a less-reticent star beside Leonard — and a Thunder team that wasn’t built to absolutely terrorize the league for years to come.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

They initially told him they were deporting him to his home country, which he thinks was done "to terrorize us."

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

“They should not be anonymous. They should be identifiable. And they have to have rules of engagement that don’t allow them to terrorize and intimidate, harass and assault U.S. citizens and other people,” he said.

From Salon • Feb. 2, 2026

Additionally, obsessives can view Quint’s harpoon gun and original design specifications for the mechanical sharks built to terrorize Martha’s Vineyard in 1974.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025

But if that sneaky son of a gun thought it was going to terrorize Rex Walls’s little girl, it had by God got another think coming.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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