terror
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The U.A.E. was, in 2022, placed on the Financial Action Task Force’s gray list due to insufficient controls on anti-money-laundering and terror financing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Paleontologists formally identified the "terror croc" as a distinct species in 2020 and named it Deinosuchus schwimmeri in Schwimmer's honor.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
They argued the vast new embassy next to the Tower of London would increase the risk of a terror attack and of espionage and harassment of dissidents and protesters.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
When the chandelier falls, Production Stage Manager Jovon E. Shuck wants audiences to feel a fresh thrill of terror.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
The kraken too: even amid all the terror, he was sure he had seen the kraken lift Mal to safety.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
The dark comedy about a New England island beset by supernatural terrors is both exceedingly clever and genuinely terrifying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
This has been true for a very long time and remains true at a time of compounding terrors, crimes and disappointments.
From Salon ● May 14, 2026
"Now I've started therapy and hopefully that will help the night terrors."
From BBC ● May 11, 2026
But somehow, I have managed to defy the odds, becoming the rare outlier to not only protect my job from the A.I. monster’s bite but profit from its terrors.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
For the night is dark and full of terrors.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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