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terroristic

American  
[ter-er-ist-ik] / ˌtɛr ərˈɪst ɪk /

adjective

  1. promoting, involving, or characterized by terrorism.


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According to recordings of dispatch audio from San Diego police reviewed by The Times, dispatchers told officers in the field at approximately 11:05 a.m. to be on the lookout for a “possible terroristic threat.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

“If the rationale had been to combat misinformation or protect against algorithms radicalizing people into terroristic behavior, I’d be like, ‘Yeah, let’s do this,’” she says.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 18, 2024

The juvenile – who is not being identified because they are a minor – has been charged with terroristic threats, false public alarms and cyber harassment.

From Fox News ● Dec. 21, 2021

The state’s 2002 anti-terrorism law defines a terroristic act as one intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or to affect the conduct of a government through intimidation or coercion.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021

She belonged to the earlier days of the romantic movement, and made her conquest at the head of squadrons of medievalistic, terroristic, and Germanistic Goths.

From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike

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