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terror

noun as in intense fear

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When asked if the terror plot had an impact on the company’s recent spate of surprising policy changes, Facebook did not provide a direct response.

On the other hand, the levels of fear are increasing due to the social effects and the messages of terror that this type of violence instills in the entire community.

I tried to determine the relationship between politicians using hate speech and the number of domestic terror attacks the country experienced the following year.

It’s been almost three months since an independent group of United Nations experts called on the US government to conduct an independent investigation into racial terror.

Deep cultural memory entangles wolves and wilderness in all their terror and majesty.

And that is an awful lot less bloody than what happened during the Reign of Terror.

The Sputnik shapes seem like a nod to Cold War surveillance morphing into Age of Terror surveillance.

Yet his liberal voice was too often silenced on War on Terror issues.

“They should go and join [the] Anti-Terror Operation,” she said.

Oddly enough, it was initially conceived as a weapon for the Global War on Terror.

Terror drives you on; fate coerces you; you can't help yourself, and my delight is to make the plunge terrible.

Terror and fascination caught him; he turned away lest she should reach his secret and communicate her own.

But France had had enough of the Terror, and knew that she could evolve her safety by other means than that of the guillotine.

Before very long the prisoners knew that, in spite of the Terror, some powerful hand was extended over them.

Terror has been and always will be the most certain means of corrupting and enslaving the mind of man.

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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to terror, such as: anxiety, awe, dread, horror, intimidation, and panic.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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