scary
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“Now how do I actualize it? How do I make it a film? And that’s the exciting and scary part. How do we make magic feel cultural?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
The bombshell announcement was full of scary, highly technical terms: "a swarm of sandboxes", "agentic attacker", and "self-migrating command and control".
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
A model chasing "freedom" is almost predictable at this point, he added -- it lets the system pursue its goals more effectively, "and that's very scary."
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
"I find it quite scary how easy it's becoming to film people and post them on social media without them even knowing there's a camera."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
“I will not be doing scary science experiments,” Alyx announced with a sniff.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
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
How do you make a film scary when every waking day is scarier?
From Salon ● Mar. 29, 2026
“This to me feels scarier because the supply chain dislocations could be much bigger.”
From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026
Joining NFL team without a good QB is scarier than showing up to Day One in your underpants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
Sometimes, I think it’s scarier to be alive, especially when you feel that you’ll never be as happy and carefree as when you were a little kid.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
Joel Mawhinney, known as Joel M, said the "risky" trick was "the scariest experience" of his life.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
"And the scariest thing is for the children. My children are just very afraid."
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
For any other professional golfer, the scariest part about Scheffler and McIlroy is how they can outpace the competition even when they’re playing below form.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 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
Still, Mrs. Brisbane was the scariest of them all.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
Vocabulary lists containing scary
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