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Swelling of the brain, resulting in death or damage that could involve any part of it, is perhaps the most frightening thing that measles can do to your child.

From Salon

"We've had trouble around here before but never with a gun. It's frightening that sort of thing happens so close to your front door," he said.

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"He frightens opponents and they can't relax against him. With confidence has come calmness when it comes to finishing. He's not a traditional target man but he's a goalscorer."

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“A24 is such a brand — and brands always frighten me,” she says over Zoom from an office space in Zambia where she stationed herself so she could get a good Wi-Fi signal for our interview.

"Of course, there was nothing on it apart from a pretty label on the front, no ingredients whatsoever. There was nothing, really, I could show him. And that was a frightening thing," she said.

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

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