scarier
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Our niece and her husband have a toddler who is nearly 2 years old; raising a giant sequoia didn’t seem scarier than trying to raise a child.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Simons: Given their two histories, it does make sense that this would be scarier to her, and that she would run away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
"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
Did anything else happen today that is extremely relevant to this topic but in a much scarier way?
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
Falling down the shaft was much scarier than leaping off Garbo Mansion, or even flying into space from the hilltop.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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