scare
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The Offspring’s co-founding guitarist Noodles is pausing on performing due to a health scare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
“I see what it’s leading to in the future and that doesn’t scare me, but it bothers me for the other people that aren’t ready,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
"The point is to scare people," HRW said.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Boatwright worked under Niccol while Chipotle was trying to rebuild its reputation and bottom line following a food-safety scare during the prior decade.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
It charges, it stops, it flaps its ears—tries to scare you.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
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Just as sales picked up, food-safety scares involving lettuce and jalapeños ate into demand in the restaurant sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Food-safety scares in the restaurant business clouded the wraps’ initial impact, but executives hope the new value proposition will boost sales and traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Cage put it this way: “It’s not what I don’t know that scares me, it’s what I do know.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
"We don't do jump scares, really," said McKellan - although I can think of a few alarming times playing the game I vehemently disagreed with that statement.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
That scares me a little, because I’m not sure I deserve to be trusted with something so heavy.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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Liguori added that at Google "people are scared of retaliation and putting their career at risk. You feel you are being watched, you can't speak."
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
“The government seemed to be scared of nothing and no one,” said Ashutosh Varshney, a professor of political science at Brown University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
"I don't know if I was scared, what must be will be," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
“I want him to be able to say when he’s scared, hurt, embarrassed or wrong without feeling like those things diminish him.”
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
Daisy laughed so loud it scared our old hens and they all started cackling.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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The picture above was taken by a man who posted on social media about "morons on electric bikes" scaring a nearby horse, external as they rode illegally on public footpaths.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The blockade, which had effectively cut off Iran’s oil flow, was scaring Iranian VIPs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Fuel shortages and economic turmoil are scaring away foreign visitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026
A series of military exercises taking place in empty buildings across the Southland are scaring residents and rattling neighbors as the sound of gunfire rings out in the dark and troops descend from helicopters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
A human noisemaker flooding the woods with laughter and scaring away all fish within a quarter of a mile.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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