dread

Welcome to Dead Internet Theory, a Y2K-era event that celebrates a time when social media meant AOL Instant Messenger and when tech evoked excitement rather than dread.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The thought of travelling in an EV fills her with dread, she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Last weekend, a "Saturday Night Live" sketch cast him as a tortured figure, barely masking his dread of AI.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

We dread more losses but mentally anchor a stock’s value to an old price that may have become meaningless.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

She gazed at Deadwood with dreamlike curiosity, unlike most people, who peered at Clare’s tangled woods with dread, or disgust, or, worst of all, as if it were something they could own.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

To anyone who dreads flying because of ticket prices, security checks, bag fees and leg cramps, director Rory Kennedy offers several more reasons to take the train.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 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

A set of headphones covers his ears; its wires fall alongside his dreads.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025

Far more than the amount of work he faces, he dreads the month of separation they will have to endure at winter break.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Nor is it “oh no ... AI is the new dreaded tool.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

For tax reporting, does it use Form 1099 or the dreaded K-1 form?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 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

As he looked across the dreaded Marshes, something stirred in his mind.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

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

So, on the first day of track practice, I walk real slow to the locker room, dreading changing, dreading running, dreading doing this at all without a friend.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée