trepidation
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He said he was full of trepidation when he went along for the first time, aged 77.
From BBC β Oct. 31, 2026
People on other continents watch in trepidation under vivid, red-orange sunrises and sunsets.
From Science Daily β Sep. 22, 2026
U.S. stocks were mixed as inflation and Middle East war trepidation offset optimism about the artificial-intelligence boom.
From The Wall Street Journal β Sep. 18, 2026
The only trepidation would’ve been because this was the power-ballad era of all the hair-metal bands.
From Los Angeles Times β Aug. 14, 2026
I rose, disordered with delight, trepidation, confusion—I know not what—and said—louder than I liked, “Bono? Pro Bono?”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
Next year, Ravinder and Gita will have been married for half a century, the trepidations of youth dispelled by time.
From The Wall Street Journal β Dec. 25, 2025
I was nervous that he would have trepidations — ‘Oh, I’ve got this sick person on set.’
From Los Angeles Times β Apr. 11, 2025
"I had trepidations about coming at all, but I'm glad I did," he says.
From BBC β May 30, 2023
With each passing day, rail workers are getting their story out about their trepidations about the length, weight and make-up of the toxic train that originated in Illinois and was headed east to Pennsylvania.
From Salon β Feb. 17, 2023
Lambert had naturally obeyed, without murmur, but with vague trepidations at thought of this, his first journey into the great town.
From The Nest of the Sparrowhawk by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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