dread
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While he did not think it affected his tennis very much, he said it left him with a "feeling of dread" which made life on the road far less enjoyable.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"I wanted to really lean into the horror, and that slow sense of dread that the games have done so well across all of them," Cregger said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
As a millennial who views artificial intelligence with skepticism and dread, imagine my surprise when my septuagenarian parents became obsessed with Claude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
This set piece would be crucial to building their sense of dread.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
I feel it like a splash of cold water, that old sense of doom and dread, the fear that made me desperate enough to snatch baby Virginia away.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
His elderly parents and children remain in Russia and he dreads uprooting his family.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
In his interview, Holland also mentioned he dreads a read-through for his roles and tries his best to prepare for it.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026
Merry, Faye’s editor, dreads breaking the news about Faye’s latest manuscript: “How do you tell her that her 15th book . . . is unsalvageable?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Ferrara admits she could also just drive to the Nevada city, but she dreads the prospect of a four-hour-plus ride.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 8, 2025
“Okay then, maybe not. Anyway, this tall black guy with dreads, really cute, was like, ‘You went to Greenbriar and you haven’t read James Baldwin?
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
Call it a win, call it an escape, call it the clandestine claw of the dreaded Wolverine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Nor is it “oh no ... AI is the new dreaded tool.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said: "We'll start getting rid of the dreaded 'ironing board seats' so passengers can enjoy comfier, more pleasant journeys on some of Britain's busiest commuter routes."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
But they wake up on race day with the dreaded red signal on their watch telling them they haven’t fully recovered from a shake-out run the day before.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Distrust, the very feeling I dreaded, appeared in Hannah’s face.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
It even helped her perform well in the entrance exam she had been dreading for so long.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
And we’re dreading the coming costs to move our cars and some furnishings to the West Coast.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026
And so I was dreading having to editorialize about this, but fortunately a pollster did it for me.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026
And enough with the social-media snark about dreading the thought of Spirit passengers suddenly showing up on your favorite non-discount airline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
She was driving around with the kids, dreading a return to the house in Baton Rouge.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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