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Katie Gauche, of the Disabled Children's Partnership, said the idea of scrapping plans will "terrify families".

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2025

But if you’re looking for something more poetic — and more grounded — about the body horrors of fertility, “Reproduction” will terrify and surprise.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2023

In news that will terrify 15 percent of the White House staff, Major Biden, the president’s 3-year-old German shepherd, is back in Washington and looking to sink his teeth back into the nation’s affairs.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2021

Murdoch was prolific, and this book will terrify writers who compose at a turtle’s pace.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2016

He thinks that her counsel, given in this side way, will terrify me, and make me write in stronger terms to my father.”

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne