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dread

adjective as in horrible, terrifying

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noun as in fear

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verb as in anticipate with horror

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I do, I say, relating to the song’s sense of dread and eradication.

The source continues we "dread and fear being the people who didn't do what was necessary to stop the country electing Farage".

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At first, ceramics was just an escape from the monotonous copywriting work Stringer dreaded.

Sánchez-Gordon remembers her heart pounding with dread that the men were there to haul them away for being in the country without papers.

She no longer feels the need to check the news obsessively and feels the sense of “looming dread” is gone.

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