horrify
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That could melt down world financial markets and horrify his already disgruntled allies in Europe, Asia and the Gulf.
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026
Take the following quiz to imagine a future and learn if that future will horrify you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
But it is just this demand—- the requirement that citizens find ways to navigate a social world which will, necessarily, often baffle and horrify them—- that liberal societies must impose.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023
But just as his irreverent novels dismay some adults, the tadpoles produce comics — all acted out hilariously onstage — that horrify their adoptive father.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
My choices would no doubt horrify Aunt Ivy, but if they brought me friends like Perilee, it seemed like I was surely headed in the right direction.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
What horrifies her is a sense that “the law is something to be inflicted,” and therefore inherently cruel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Instead, it is an insurgency which utterly horrifies so many of them.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
“All those dissidents going into Lefortovo — the name horrifies you,” she said in an interview with ABC’s “Nightline” that aired early on Wednesday.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
Love has thrill, it has mystery, it has comedy, it touches you and it horrifies you.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
The thought of spending whatever remains of my life in this stone vault horrifies me.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Telemachus is horrified that a boy would murder his own mother, but Menelaus sets him straight.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026
People were horrified that a car drove by and took a picture of their house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Residents and wild swimmers were horrified to find them washed up on Saturday, appearing to gasp for air, in the River Wensum through Norwich.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
I’m sure many Dodgers fans were equally horrified with your behavior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
When Zita told her mother what he’d said, that Bobby was looking for a breeder, Mrs. Rajcsanyi was horrified.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
“I find that despite the onslaught of these horrifying headlines … taking action invigorates me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
These guys have long been trained to understand they’re building tools with potentially horrifying implications, and they’re not wrong about that.
From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026
Workers who managed to get out described horrifying scenes when the disaster struck.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
He covers topics in the zeitgeist related to wellness, cultural etiquette, masculinity and lifestyle/style trends—basically all the weird, funny, inspired and horrifying things being thrown at us in this moment of "maxxing."
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
And because what we are doing is so horrifying, we tend not to think of it much.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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