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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A gang of youths are roaming the city, vandalising stores, starting fires, and terrorizing people.
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Drug dealers have been terrorizing the neighborhood.
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Some of the older children dominated the playground and terrorized the smaller kids.
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With threats, beatings, and even murder, the workers were terrorized into leaving their unions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
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Her imagination took hold of the idea and terrorized her at the thought of the hospital catching fire.
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Nature blesses, haunts and terrorizes Inverness.
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The terrorized novice promptly returned it, claiming that he was being haunted by apparitions for his act.
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The local railway administrators were terrorized into collaborating.
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We renew our fight against those who seek to terrorize us in your names.
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Wilson said that post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers who have been terrorized typically fear imminent death.