scary
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“And I thought to myself, ‘Has anything, like, really scary happened at a college gathering in the state of Utah recently?,’” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Natasha Daryaie said the 40-mile journey while in premature labour was "scary"
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
When the market gets scary, these questions give you something to lean on besides your gut.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
AI went from not working very well to working so well it’s scary partly because of the nature of math itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
And even if that unknown is scary or dangerous, don’t I, as an explorer, still have to explore it, especially if it’s a matter of life and death?
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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
Hannah once said: “I know a dark alley is scary. But I’ll tell you, there’s no scarier place than a country road at night when the sky’s gone full dark and no stars.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 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 seems like it should take something a lot scarier or stronger than a piece of paper to do that.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
You can’t depend on it as a kind of law-enforcing mechanism, and that may be the scariest thing of all.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
“And I think that’s the scariest thing of all.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“This was one of, if not the scariest experience of my life. Especially since Jonathan was in Indy for practices.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
At dinners and happy hours every month, they discuss the latest and scariest AI risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
He was the toughest, scariest thing walking the alleys of the Barrel.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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