scary
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Dodgers left fielder Teoscar Hernández had a scary moment in the sixth inning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
That is certainly a scary prospect for foes facing the No. 1 team in the state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
His first commercial flight was "scary", he recalled in a podcast in 2025, because of the responsibility that came with carrying passengers' lives.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
"Starting to drive by yourself can be a scary thing", so "if it's to help with safety I think its worth it," he added.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
She was an evil woman from a scary old story, kind of like the witch from Hansel and Gretel, but worse, because she supposedly lived around here.
From "I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980" by Lauren Tarshis
And they’re watching Chinese rivals, which aren’t in the U.S. yet, become a scarier threat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Did anything else happen today that is extremely relevant to this topic but in a much scarier way?
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Barker has no interest in shining some light on Nikki when keeping his woebegone protagonist in the dark is scarier.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
"They were shouting the whole time, and it got louder during the film's scarier scenes," she tells the BBC.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
It was a stupid comparison, anyway—hollowgast were scarier, and probably deadlier, than any movie monster.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
“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
Mets interim manager Andy Green told reporters after the game that it “feels at this point in time like we’ve avoided the scariest outcomes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
“We’re diving under the water and grabbing these big old catfish. It was one of the scariest things I’ve ever done.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
KAMPALA, Uganda—The scariest thing about the Ebola strain ripping through East Africa this year might be rather surprising: It isn’t quite as lethal as those in earlier outbreaks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
But it was Lita’s version and the quickest and scariest I know.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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Unit 18, Lesson 1
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