dread
Example Sentences
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"I hate school holidays. I hate the half-term. I hate Christmas. I dread the phone ringing, because the bites do increase during the holiday period and half-term and it's just horrendous."
From BBC
Lots of people may ask this question as excitement or dread builds around the PBS debut of “The Forsytes.”
From Salon
On Monday, shares of JPMorgan and its competitors fell some 4% as a sense of dread about artificial intelligence and its broader economic effects gripped the market.
From Barron's
“I want people to feel better, not a deep sense of existential dread.”
One piece of data triggers optimism, followed just days, or hours, later by apocalyptic dread.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
