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[skair-ee] / ˈskɛər i /


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Skating to the ‘90s classic “Wannabe,” she wears Ginger Spice’s Union Jack dress, while partner Lewis Gibson dons a sequined version of Scary Spice’s leopard print.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026

The previous record-holder for the largest known TDE -- an event nicknamed Scary Barbie -- was about 30 times weaker and involved a star only three to ten times the Sun's mass.

From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2025

Scary winds and thunderstorms can be at one end of the lake, and calmer water and blue skies at the other.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025

Scary but perhaps inevitable given Page reveals how three fortune tellers predicted she would become a writer.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2025

He had been taken when the ruffians smoked out a band of rebels that he led from their hidings up in the Brockenbores by the hills of Scary.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien




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