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"What the regime wants is to intimidate, silence and frighten society through such pressure -- by arresting individual journalists, seizing media outlets, banning news coverage and blocking access to social media," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

The alerts didn’t frighten her as much as before, she said, and her fears about the future have eased.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

He’s a student of life as much as he is filmmaking, a humanist who forges connections with spectacular sights of the things that frighten and fascinate us the most.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

“They tell you to alert the bear to make sure you don’t frighten it. I called, ‘Hey bear!

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026

That was enough to frighten David Herold into fleeing.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

“This is art that both frightens and inspires.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

What frightens scientists more than the sheer numbers are that the cuts are arbitrary and manifestly pernicious.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

It frightens me how painfully ironic it feels to cover a film about my industry’s demise when it was “The Devil Wears Prada” that pointed me here in the first place.

From Salon ● May 1, 2026

I’m not here to persuade you to fly if it frightens you that much.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

He realizes something that frightens him: Inspector Becker seems to have already found Franz Seemann guilty.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

“Anchovy Jack can run fast, jump high, and was too frightened to slow down and let anyone get close to him,” the statement read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

In the story’s climax, a frightened Ichabod encounters the terrible spirit on the way home from a party—or is it Brom, playing an elaborate prank?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Truran is regularly stopped by strangers, many of them women in their 20s and 30s, who tell her they are "frightened of getting old" and she shows them "it's not that bad".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Naomi, from Exeter, said she had been too frightened to leave.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

I think I had never been so frightened in all my life as I was at that moment.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

The frightening truth is that I have no clear idea where I will go or what I will do when I can no longer care for myself.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

Other Mommy promises to nurture Bela, but clearly she represents the worst type of matriarch imaginable: one who is frightening, controlling and dangerous.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

Ocker’s “Chasing the Headless Horseman” pursues the origins and cultural legacy of a frightening figure who has a genesis closer to home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

She said: "After working all my life I didn't expect to be constantly worrying about how to keep warm at my age. It is really quite frightening."

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

“Knowledge can be a very powerful and, for some, frightening thing, Kyle. Especially when it’s shared with the whole world, including your neighbors.”

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein