threat
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Two key regions are often involved: the amygdala, which helps shape the sense of safety or threat, and the prefrontal cortex, which supports planning, decision making, and emotional control.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
The operation is expected to cost around £4.5m and coincides with the FA Cup Final at Wembley, against a terrorism threat level that remains at severe.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
Musk’s lawsuit is an existential threat to that relationship as he seeks to wind OpenAI back to its 2015 nonprofit roots—as well as undo its special relationship with Microsoft.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Yet somehow, a world war posed less of a threat to Hearts than the disastrous tenure of a Russian-Lithuanian owner who nearly spent the club into oblivion in the 2010s.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
After all my hours of watching, I’d learned that was how to show I wasn’t a threat.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
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