superstition
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She has tentatively started another novel but has "a superstition talking about things that I haven't finished yet".
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Death penalty cases related to foreign culture, religion and "superstition" jumped by 250 percent after the border closure.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Lindo starts rapping on the wood table separating us and doesn’t stop until I ask if he’s a man given to superstition.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026
Also, according to superstition, a person’s own animal year is thought to be a time for guardedness.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
People tell him of a superstition: drink from the Rio Bravo, and he’ll be stuck in Nuevo Laredo forever.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
Vocabulary lists containing superstition
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