suspenseful
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It took so long to do, it was borderline suspenseful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
A great, suspenseful Tour de France was over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
“Like an image emerging from an old photographic negative, the long-buried truth surfaces gradually,” writes Anna Mundow of Emma Garman’s suspenseful debut novel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
In a new trailer, below, “Primetime” puts a suspenseful spin on the heyday of NBC’s cultural phenomenon “To Catch a Predator.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
The next few days were horribly suspenseful, but before the week was out, a letter came from M. Yoshoto accepting me as an instructor at Les Amis Des Vieux Maîtres.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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