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Through it all, the Jurassic Park franchise continued to break new ground, surprising and captivating audiences with fresh, new and unexpected developments in each installment, made all the more vivid, realistic and frightening with the latest in CGI and believable acting.—
Jan Wagner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 July 2025 -
Perhaps most frightening of all is the fact that, in rural areas, such calamity occurs before any official help can arrive.—
Jessica Pishko,
New Yorker,
15 July 2025
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Raids on California farms in June already left crops unharvested and farm operators fearful of more crackdowns to come.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
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After raids on California farms in June, some crops have been left unharvested, with farm operators fearful of more crackdowns to come.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 July 2025
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But a week later, what had been named the Dragon Bravo Fire hit a patch of fuel and took on a terrifying character in new gusts of wind, surrounding overwhelmed firefighters on a helipad and heading with unstoppable force to the south.—
Tom Zoellner,
AZCentral.com,
25 July 2025
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As global anxiety builds, Luna must face not just the predator in the desert but the terrifying possibility that humanity’s end is hurtling toward them from the stars.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
25 July 2025
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For an Austin audience, this data center conflict resonates with a chilling familiarity.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
11 July 2025
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Months later, they were spotted chilling and having fun in their box at the BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells Tennis Garden.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
8 July 2025
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The scary thing about Jefferson's injury is that he was also kept out of multiple games in 2023 due to a hamstring injury.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 July 2025
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Back at home, Percy finally finds his mom, but the season ends on an ominous note when Kronos delivers what Percy thinks is a threat but is actually a very scary warning: Kronos' return depends on Percy's survival.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
22 July 2025
Adjective
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However, that game caught the attention of both the league front office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York because of the alarming number of under bets taken on Rozier’s individual statistical lines.—
Mat Issa,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Now the risk is back on the rise, as an alarming new nuclear age dawns.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
14 July 2025
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Because of Denise Gough's human frailty as a woman destroyed by her own ambition and Kyle Soller's cowardice in the face of a horrible truth.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
23 July 2025
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Soak up the gall of losing, absorb the horrible information, feel it to the full, go there—and then rebound, with superb elasticity.—
James Parker,
The Atlantic,
22 July 2025
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The market is just full of butcher shops, with the most ghastly whole pigs and halves of steers hanging from horrible hooks.—
John Updike,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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Regretfully, my brother—probably the only person who might’ve been able to look past my cowboy getup and glue-on horseshoe moustache and ghastly wax-like exterior—was being punished at home for stealing cigarettes.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
18 June 2025
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“Persecutory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/persecutory. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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