scary
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Speaking to comedian Matt Forde at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he said being diagnosed with cancer was a "scary thing" and urged men to "just get checked".
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Meanwhile, their top executives are increasingly talking about AI in ways that emphasize potential broad-based economic opportunity rather than job displacement or other scary scenarios.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Instead, he projects “a period of scary recession fears, intense enough to cause an S&P 500 correction and an S&P 500 technology sector bear market before the end of this year.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
But the truth is we shot in New York, and it did feel scary again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Even though it can feel scary to see someone hooked up to tubes, it’s also a sign of how much help they’re receiving.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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
Of course, a skeptic is going to tell these Knicks that their opponents have been lousy, and what’s coming—the winner of a tense Western Conference Final between San Antonio and Oklahoma City—is far scarier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
On the scarier side, Wright says there's another place we can already see the combination of robotics and agentic AI: battlefield drones.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
“It’s almost scarier than before. I think she’s really anxious to get out.”
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
"And the scariest thing is for the children. My children are just very afraid."
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Abi, who is from Manchester, struggles with health anxiety and finds a chatbot gives more tailored advice than an internet search, which will often take her straight to the scariest possibilities.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
Without my boyfriend’s paycheck buffering our vibes-based accounting, it was time to face the scariest part of managing your money: the spending audit.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026
The scariest man in music these days is a trim, antsy, matter-of-fact ex-physicist named Mikey Shulman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026
It was the scariest thing she'd ever done.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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