apprehension
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That apprehension is understandable, but ironically, the film treats adults with kid gloves.
From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026
Regarding Love's offending, Madam Justice McBride said by her guilty pleas she accepted she intentionally destroyed evidence and that she intentionally impeded her son's apprehension.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
The apprehension that marked her 20s disappeared, replaced by a silent confidence molded from experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Neville hedges his bet by filling us in on Michaels’ spotlight apprehension, making his reticence a through line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
An air of apprehension lay across the camp in the meadow.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
And while those apprehensions are examined in the film, they’re never once investigated from Nikki’s point of view.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
The spider’s ability to transmute our human apprehensions still holds true.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
"A lot of the previous limit on contact seems to be due to Pyongyang's apprehensions about broader contact, which have diminished," Chong told AFP.
From Barron's ● Mar. 12, 2026
“In Los Angeles right now — today, as a matter of fact — we have agents out on the streets right now making apprehensions, as you and I are speaking,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
“In the gloomiest moments of the Revolutionary War,” he wrote in 1820, “I never had any apprehensions equal to what I feel from this source.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing apprehension
Lord of the Flies
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"Of Mice and Men"
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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