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We should take the warnings of Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Geoffrey Hinton and others seriously without allowing fears about tomorrow’s frontier systems to frighten us from responsibly using today’s technology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Fireworks can frighten animals and send them scattering, but Jackie and Shadow’s eaglets apparently are made of sterner stuff.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026

"Until yesterday, I never thought there would be something that would frighten me of going back to Liverpool after the break. Team-mates come and go but not like this," Salah posted last summer.

From BBC ● May 23, 2026

“My concern is about the publicizing of these kinds of incidents as a tool to frighten people,” Weiser said.

From Salon ● May 14, 2026

Local farmers wanted to hang dead crows around the town on public buildings to frighten the others away; ornithologists said that it wouldn’t work, that the living crows would simply eat the dead ones.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

What frightens Ms. Stern most isn’t simply that the AfD might become stronger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

I have to admit your creativity frightens me a little.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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

This is how he likes to be when there’s thunder, the one thing that actually frightens him.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

After some of the attacks, Weinberg would ask the frightened women to speak with other potential models who were nervous about letting him photograph them, according to the February court filing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Back in Matla, Bamita's mother speaks about the child who would ask for money for snacks, play with her sister and run inside whenever cars approached because vehicles frightened her.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

But despite the typos and inconsistencies in the emails, I understood how such an unsophisticated scam might actually be effective if the mark was sufficiently confused—or frightened.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Raik, the former mayor, said the sound of drones initially frightened her, but now she’s gotten used to it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

They looked as wet and exhausted and frightened as Natalie, and just as surprised to see her as she was to see them.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz

Seeing the outfit up close is a reminder of just how little Hopkins needed to work with: Even with virtually his entire body immobilized and much of his face obscured, Lecter somehow became more frightening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Most of those worrisome capabilities do not exist today in anything approaching their most frightening forms.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Even more frightening are the claims made about how this information is gathered.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026

But her life took a dramatic and frightening turn during a performance of Queen musical We Will Rock You at the London Coliseum.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

And I was thinking how that can come over you, out of nowhere, and if it wasn’t such a fine feeling, it might almost be frightening.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan