"It was kind of scary, but we didn't see the fire really, " said Tufan.

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It was kind of scary at first.

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Dr. OVERPECK: It's kind of scary in the sense that it'll be very hard to manage the response of this change because we really don't know in any one location exactly how climate's going to change, particularly with rainfall.

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And so it's kind of scary.

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And for so many of our friends and neighbors to be saying, 'We're staying home this year, ' is, I guess, kind of a scary thing, but at the same time, it's great.

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It was a situation where I knew I had to do a second album, but something that kind of got a little scary--I bruised my vocal cords.

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Ms. HANSON: Yeah, I mean - it's kind of - it's still scary, like.

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Mr. SVEJDA: Kind of a dark, mysterious, scary quality in De Preist's Sibelius.

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The kind of uncertainty and market volatility we saw in 2008 is scary for even those with the most iron-lined of stomachs.

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If you're the kind of person that likes a good fiscal horror story, you'll find plenty of scary sounding numbers in today's report from the OBR on the long-term state of Britain's public finances.

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It was the kind of sound that would provide an appropriate backdrop to a horror movie that was just about to get scary.

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