dread
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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
The vision of a utopian domestic future took a strange turn during the Cold War, marrying the breathless excitement of the space age with the existential dread of nuclear annihilation.
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
As the summer wore on, the boy had begun, if not to enjoy his weekly conversations with the social worker, at least not to dread them.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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
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
He stood at his counter, wearing purple robes and a wizard hat topping off his dreads.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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
But I live in fear of the moment when the conversation takes that dreaded turn toward the last redoubt of small talk: What do you do?
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
As they neared the top, the day grew closer; Anya had never before dreaded the sunrise.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
And we’re dreading the coming costs to move our cars and some furnishings to the West Coast.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 23, 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
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
Everyone here is dreading the great terror known as winter.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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