petrified
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Tottenham midfielder James Maddison has suggested referees are "petrified" to make decisions because of the video assistant referee, after being denied a stoppage-time penalty against Leeds on Monday.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
With “Rooster,” Lawrence, Tarses and Carell have created a more intimate dynamic centered on a father-daughter bond that has petrified a bit.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
"We ran downstairs to the basement... from the 10th floor... we were petrified," he told AFP.
From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026
He barely allows the petrified Boo to twitch, yet somehow, we catch a glimpse of the qualities Duvall the actor will go on to reveal: dangerous and vulnerable, mythic and man-sized, electrifyingly watchable.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026
It was studded with brown oblong shapes—petrified tree logs—and whitish fragments—pieces of petrified bone.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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