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scare

noun as in frightened state

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Tatiana Stanovaya believes it is not that he wants to start World War Three, but because “he believes he must scare the Western elites to show they are playing with fire”.

From BBC

Despite the brief health scare, Rife told The Times his career trajectory had far exceeded his expectations.

Jennifer Horn, a former chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party and now a registered independent who opposes Trump, said there’s no question that the GOP has been very effective at “demonizing California as a dangerously liberal state” to scare other parts of America, whether it’s true or not.

This was the second Red Scare, the first having occurred in the years after WWI, but the focus on expelling people from the government, including the military, on thin suspicions of disloyalty was a specialty of McCarthy and Cohn.

From Salon

The public scare, in part pushed by the media, almost led her to quit her job.

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

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