superstitious
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Richie is anxious to get back home by 5:15, because Tiffany, who is pregnant, has a superstitious notion that that’s the time she’ll go into labor.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
He said he told him about superstitious routines he would do like talking to the car or always getting in on the left hand side.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
Barker says he is superstitious and has fine-tuned his routine to prepare for an auction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025
She wasn’t so much superstitious as obedient, devoted to making the ineffable routine and mysticism accessible even to the uninitiated.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2025
Even by the standards of the superstitious ancient Greeks, Pythagoras’s beliefs were eccentric.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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