as in demons
a source of persistent emotional distress
after the death of her father, fear of developing cancer became one of the terrors of her life
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Recent Examples of terrors
The internet gives us more opportunity to be exposed to noteworthy terrors from other countries.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
It's been a consistently reliable genre in the decades since, pairing mental anguish and unreliable perspectives with nightmarish imagery and terrors that lie just beyond our perceptions.
—Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
This beautiful stop-motion spectacle is a darker rendition than is typical of Pinocchio stories, putting the beloved puppet in a dangerous Italy with fascism on the rise and the very real terrors of the adult world all around him.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
The series is set in the seemingly idyllic town of Blooming Hills, where unknown forces unleash chilling terrors on local teens.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
Repression, self-harm, substance abuse, bullying, jealousy, emotional abuse, and even allusions to grooming, among other terrors of the fog, keep the tensions high from start to finish.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Fletcher, who has been touring a number of the world’s hot spots, used his first trip to Haiti to meet with victims of the gangs’ terrors.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Less accomplished drivers experiencing one of Renault’s tiny terrors (nearly a foot shorter than the original Mazda Miata) for the first time will be delighted, but soon realize that the car’s close-ratio gearbox demands that the engine be revved, and turbo lag comes along for every ride.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2025
As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants – human and otherwise.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
Brian Truitt, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
It's been a consistently reliable genre in the decades since, pairing mental anguish and unreliable perspectives with nightmarish imagery and terrors that lie just beyond our perceptions.
—Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Oct. 2025
This beautiful stop-motion spectacle is a darker rendition than is typical of Pinocchio stories, putting the beloved puppet in a dangerous Italy with fascism on the rise and the very real terrors of the adult world all around him.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
The series is set in the seemingly idyllic town of Blooming Hills, where unknown forces unleash chilling terrors on local teens.
—Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2025
Repression, self-harm, substance abuse, bullying, jealousy, emotional abuse, and even allusions to grooming, among other terrors of the fog, keep the tensions high from start to finish.
—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
Fletcher, who has been touring a number of the world’s hot spots, used his first trip to Haiti to meet with victims of the gangs’ terrors.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
Less accomplished drivers experiencing one of Renault’s tiny terrors (nearly a foot shorter than the original Mazda Miata) for the first time will be delighted, but soon realize that the car’s close-ratio gearbox demands that the engine be revved, and turbo lag comes along for every ride.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2025
As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants – human and otherwise.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for terrors
demons
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Based on the book series The Mortal Instruments, the Freeform series follows a girl (Katherine McNamara) who descends from a long line of human-angel hybrids who hunt down demons.—
Kelsie Gibson,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Red must face his demons and pick up the bottle one last time to take down the monster and save his town for good.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Terrors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/terrors. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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