dread

"There's this kind of apathy and a bit of dread."

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

The arrival of another winter fills her family with dread, but unlike many others, they are not planning to move out of Delhi.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

As workloads mount and job security ebbs, people are struggling to tame the pre-Monday dread spiral.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

As workloads mount and job security ebbs, the pre-Monday dread spiral is getting worse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

They knew what it was like to lose everything overnight, and ever since the first time, they'd lived with the dread that it could happen again.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

The 48-year-old, who is married with a 12-year-old daughter, says he has to find the extra money for fuel "from an already tight budget" and "dreads" filling up at the pump.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

“I’m a suburban dude,” he said, smiling from his home in metro Atlanta, his cropped two-toned dreads bobbing as he spoke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

His elderly parents and children remain in Russia and he dreads uprooting his family.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 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

I was thinking about how Radar’s parents actually were in the Guinness Book when I noticed a pretty African-American girl with spiky little dreads standing above us.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green

United Airlines announced in July that it would offer a new Economy Plus option that allows customers to forgo having a passenger in the dreaded middle seat.

From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026

Paying Towns and Hart their maximum allowable contracts would almost certainly land the Knicks on the most dreaded financial terrain in the sport in the near future.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

When we returned to Los Angeles, I dreaded becoming dependent on a car for everything.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Nelson said he "dreaded the summer holidays approaching" because he knew his mother "would be spending a lot of time on the Garvaghy Road".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

I dreaded going home and being subjected to more of the interrogation about my day Mom had started in the car.

From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling

"It's horrible. I was really dreading it because I'm constantly reminded anyway that my daughter isn't here any more and why that is, but to actually have a physical reminder on my face is horrible."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 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

Many of my Chicago neighbors wake each morning dreading what they’ll read in the newspaper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

But she must already have made some impression on me, because I remember carrying on busily with whatever I was doing in the sand, absolutely dreading the idea of her turning her gaze on me.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro