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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

Wildlife experts say human-bear conflicts are the result of people moving deeper into the wildlands, and that bears that wander into neighborhoods are often harmless and easy to frighten.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026

Both knew that bears sometimes claw at trees to mark their range, or frighten off other hunters.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

“This is art that both frightens and inspires.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

What frightens Atash Heil is the uncertainty of what an AI-dominated future might look like - and the speed of the transformation graduates have witnessed during their college years.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 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

“It’s the meanwhile frightens me, sir. The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods. That was no accident. That, sir, was a profound knowledge of man.”

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Adam, whose daughter attends St Peter's, said he felt frightened even though he had texted her and knew she was OK.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

“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

Speaking to Italian news agency Ansa, he said he witnessed "smashed shop windows, looted stores, and frightened citizens", adding that "what happened here is what we are seeing in many cities around the world".

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

The frightened chick made one small distress peep and that’s all it took.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

“I profoundly underestimated how painful it is to lose a loved one or how frightening it is to have your body start to fail,” he said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

There was something delightful about watching those women be represented as something frightening in the evening, then seeing them show up to the polls the next morning.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026

At the same time, she is confronting a frightening medical diagnosis that she keeps secret from her family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2026

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

I ran my fingers over the bow tied around the beast’s neck, over its frightening claws, its dangerous tail.

From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate