scare
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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
Is he trying to scare parents into not inoculating children?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
That comes from finding common ground, not from scare ads and nasty attacks.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
Perez claimed that he’d changed dramatically since the health scare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
In order for the man in the red jacket to be okay, he needed to know that he could scare us.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
He was joined by “Aqua Dazzle” owner Rex Danyluk and friends as they designed an immersive, imaginative experience without a haunted house, a maze or jump scares.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
To be clear, that example about ambulances scares me, too.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
“Widow’s Bay” has its share of jump scares, but for the most part, its frights are bearable and its symbols are heavier on text as opposed to subtext.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
"I've already heard of Ebola and it's a disease that scares me a lot," Mapenzi said as she washed her laundry in a basin on the ground.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Because if there’s one thing scares me more than being lost in the dark, it’s being lost in the fog.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
“Why? Because it was scared of what it might find out, and it was scared of what the legal consequences might be.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Hollywood star Matthew Rhys has revealed he was "too scared" to talk to Harrison Ford about being the voice of Han Solo in a new Welsh language adaptation of Star Wars.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
"I'm not scared of whatever comes next," she continued.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Even if you’re scared, do it,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The only thing my calling attracted that time was an old hog that nearly scared me to death.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
“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
Resident Faye Sturgess said: "Being a farming community, we're used to hearing bangs from scaring the rabbits in the fields, but this was like nothing I've ever heard."
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
In horror, more is more — more gore, more jump scares, more shadowed silhouettes; all in service of scaring the viewer.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026
My mental default is that the world is neutral-good, and that may be why I prefer movies with active villains scaring me out of my complacency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
If there are night creachers out there, we’re scaring ’em away.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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