- comparative of scary.
scarier
Example Sentences
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"They did it autonomously, without any human encouragement. They chose to go on this hacking spree. It was the combination of things getting faster and things also getting scarier," Coxon said.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
During the 1970s, San Fernando High football coach Bill Marsh created something scarier than Frankenstein: the wishbone offense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Did anything else happen today that is extremely relevant to this topic but in a much scarier way?
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
“What’s even scarier than the skepticism around actual AI is that a lot of people are assuming real stuff is AI.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
The sound is off, and for some reason, it’s scarier, watching the silent twirling spiral twisting on the screen, inching across the blue water, coming closer to New Orleans’s shore.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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