dread

He also has a sense of dread when it comes to trips to the dentist office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

But since the rings select their bearers by asking whether they’re afraid during an ambush designed to create dread, the test favors those for whom life never presents anything to fear.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

"We're lucky. For the moment we haven't found any dead animal. It's what we dread, because it's very hot," she said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Part of that attention is aimed at Burwell’s score, a masterpiece of electronic minimalism in which pitch bends and hard clashes create the dread and whiplash that make the film so tense.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

I dread opening that class door with every step.

From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell

But he still dreads the possibility the product of his 25-hectare vineyard in the village of Correns could be declared undrinkable, and that he'd be unable to sell some 90,000 bottles.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 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

Chrissie Read, who has four children between the ages of 10 and 17, said she "quite often dreads the summer holidays" and relied on the charity's boxes to manage.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2025

“Of course,” Celia says, though she fears he will ask her how she does her magic, and she dreads having to lie to him.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

"I suffered from body dysmorphia for years because of that, believing that no matter how strong, thin or young I was, there was no escaping the dreaded cottage cheese thighs."

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 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

Anything that drifts too close to the dreaded category of “dump and stir,” a phrase that has done real reputational harm to a perfectly sensible technique?

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

But he does sugarcoat his technological limitations as a 67-year-old comic in the dreaded age of video calls with a punchy Chicano twist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

The only sound was Rasseem’s low chuckle, which hissed through the cavities of his teeth and sounded to my ears like a snake whispering the dreaded name of Cid.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

And we’re dreading the coming costs to move our cars and some furnishings to the West Coast.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 2026

In fact, I found myself humming along the interstate at 80 mph, anticipating, even dreading the moment the gas engine refired.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

"We've gone from dreading a haircut, not knowing what he would be like, to him loving going there," he says.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

And so I was dreading having to editorialize about this, but fortunately a pollster did it for me.

From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2026

It’s a mixture of hating to see Mustafa argue with our parents and dreading the idea of the competition.

From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan