feared
Example Sentences
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Yestin Duran, a 31-year-old beverage vendor, said she feared that "gangsters and robbers can cross over" more easily from Brazil.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
When cracks began scarring the structure and the front steps started to sink shortly after its 1922 opening, some people feared that nothing would stop the descent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
As she writes in the book, and has said elsewhere, it wasn’t that she hated her baby or feared harming her but instead “a total blackout of emotion, like my soul was dead.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
“When we first invested in early 2022, investors feared an escalating content arms race among a crowded field of streaming entrants,” Ackman and Israel recalled in the letter.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
The villagers’ words poured out with such force I feared I might drown in them.
From "Willodeen" by Katherine Applegate
