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Her remarkable lack of experience may help explain why Graham didn’t scare anyone out of the race when she announced her plan to keep the seat.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Not to dismiss the threats — the threats are real — but the more we talk about them, the more we scare voters,” Alexander said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

Traditionally, he says, men "almost need a bit of a scare" to start trying to shed the pounds, seeing it as something private and shunning the more social approach some women prefer, like slimming clubs.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

She said it would scare away high-income earners and businesses from the city.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

“I’m just going to reach over and turn this on,” he said, slowly moving toward the lamp, careful not to scare the boy away.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

To be clear, that example about ambulances scares me, too.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

He has also survived health scares, notably a fall in his bathroom in 2024 that caused a brain bleed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

In the 50 years that have followed, audiences have become somewhat less susceptible to scares, but no less susceptible to phenomena.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

The buzz: Both teams are unbeaten and each survived scares in the quarterfinals, with England outlasting Norway in extra time in brutal weather in Miami and Argentina beating Switzerland in extra time in Kansas City.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026

Everything that scares you kind of mushes together to become this big, terrifying feeling.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

She adds: "We feel scared, especially after the sanctions that began yesterday. Ever since the war, my spouse has not gone back to work. He used to work on ships."

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

That we see the group start horrified and scared for their lives, and then watch as they embrace their place in the infinite agony to the point that it becomes comical, is remarkable.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Coming in second and also distributed by Sony Pictures was "Insidious: Out of the Further," which scared up a solid opening weekend of $25.3 million for the sixth installment of the horror franchise.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

If I wasn’t so scared of tumbling into the ocean, I would have laughed at the fact that a woman who was technically a senior citizen was the one assisting a twentysomething.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

I’m so scared of upsetting her again that I don’t know what to talk about.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

A series of military exercises taking place in empty buildings across the Southland are scaring residents and rattling neighbors as the sound of gunfire rings out in the dark and troops descend from helicopters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Mounting piles of garbage, stagnant water and a crumbling health system fueled outbreaks of mosquito-borne illnesses, further scaring away tourists.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026

“Higher mortgage rates are scaring off some buyers, but that’s opening the door for others,” Chen Zhao, Redfin’s head of economics research, said in a statement.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

"I was so agitated that I was scared. I was scaring myself because I felt out of control," he said.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

The thought of me scaring my biggest, strongest brother was laughable.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly