dreaded
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Appeared in the December 4, 2025, print edition as 'On Caracas Streets, Inflation Dreaded Most'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
Dreaded and disastrous though they might be, new restrictions are unavoidable, given the pandemic’s resurgence, said Peter Piot, a renowned infectious disease expert.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2020
The Dreaded “C” Word, he called it in his memoir, “I Call the Shots.”
From Golf Digest • Sep. 14, 2018
The Dreaded C-Word Bryce Harper ran face-first into a wall.
From Slate • May 17, 2013
I dreaded this moment Dreaded the thought of her swinging the kitchen door open and her seeing me with a bag of uncooked food.
From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia
