menace

Naderi was one of the totems of the day, a work rate that never stopped, a constant menace in hunting and gathering.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The herky-jerky, unceasing Children of the Hydra’s Teeth are all memorable menace, their details etched deep into the film stock by the punishing midday sun of the Mediterranean.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Intrigued by the vague mixture of menace and nostalgia that the image evoked, internet users began sharing stories and speculating that the Backrooms is a hidden dimension into which people might accidentally find themselves.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

The performance, perhaps intending to inject a note of potential menace, plays up Ru’s anger at the expense of his hurt — and comes off as grating and utterly unsympathetic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

Despite its burgeoning navigational abilities, Homo sapiens was still overwhelmingly a terrestrial menace.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

EU officials said that as part of the efforts they want to step up the mandatory registration of drones across the bloc to be able to better keep track of potential menaces.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

The book’s most edifying compilations recount the Soviet people’s unconquerable yearning to live, create and love freely, despite the daily menaces of a police state and deafening propaganda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

Given the twin menaces of global warming and pandemic threats, “the reality, now, is that human civilization is in actual grave danger.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2025

It is a disgrace, he says, that the energy firms can send out "menaces" like that over a problem of their making.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025

Holding kids deemed menaces to society in a place that would be completely normal if not for the twelve-foot barbed-wire-topped fences seems like someone’s bad idea of a joke.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

Hawaii was menaced by Hurricane Fausto last month, before the storm weakened and skirted north of the island chain.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Trade barriers to Chinese goods are rising, and its own economy is menaced by deflation, the outgrowth of its rampant production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

Even when the whole family is menaced, as in “Poltergeist,” the evil entities have a special yearning to possess little blonde girls.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025

Not the craggy summit looking over the Owens Valley 10,000 feet below nor the nearly vertical, several-hundred-foot drop that menaced just a few steps to the right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

The men who were working along the rows felt possessed by a strange fascination, menaced by some invisible danger, and many succumbed to a terrible desire to weep.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The same grin can look menacing or jovial, depending on how Thatcher contorts the rest of her features.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Emblazoned on his outer forearm is a menacing portrait of Tony Montana from the 1983 film “Scarface.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

As it turns out, Garmin users are an enthusiastic, and occasionally menacing, bunch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

In this sense, the Backrooms reveal how digital culture is beginning to reshape experiences traditionally associated with tourism, allowing for the mundane to become menacing.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

“No, I’m picturing hundreds of your hideous mug menacing the entire world,” Door said.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste