chilling

Example Sentences

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"What chilling effect does that have on the world we live in? You don't like what a public official does and you make a joke, and you're dragged into court?"

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2026

Gomez added that while attempts to pull licenses border on folly, Carr’s threats and attacks on the media can create a chilling effect and erode the public’s confidence in the press.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

A number of charts suggest the financial sector is suffering through a bearish technical breakdown, and that could send a chilling signal for the rest of the stock market.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 14, 2026

And Ivana Bašić’s chilling sculptures deploy a long list of materials to create highly polished, alien-like creatures that could be the result of a horrifying futuristic experiment to create human-insect-robot hybrids.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

“Sandra, my father would never do anything like that,” she said, in a chilling, matter-of-fact tone.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana