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in terror

adverb as in fearfully

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Susan from Surrey - whose name we have also changed - told the BBC she lived in "terror" for more than three years because SH failed to fix her front door, which was not properly secured, despite her continual pleas.

From BBC

I do with myself what I would have done with my clients who would be living in terror over the prospect of a Trump win.

From Salon

Haitian residents of Springfield, Ohio, have spent the last week living in terror, their sense of normalcy upended by the wildfire-like spread of a right-wing conspiracy theory accusing them of killing and eating cats.

From Salon

The great part is that Harris took what many expected to be an event to watch through the gaps between our fingers — as we covered our eyes in terror — and comforted us by making the exercise into a comedy.

From Salon

These supposedly strong men flinch in terror of literal schoolchildren whose gender self-presentation falls outside their rigid boundaries.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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