dread
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Dread of the school drop-off line has been percolating for years.
From Slate • Sep. 3, 2024
“It’s almost like the Dread Pirate Roberts from ‘The Princess Bride.’
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023
The Hill offered an opinion piece titled “Five Reasons to Dread the 2024 Election,” all the way back on March 23.
From Washington Times • Sep. 17, 2023
In 2002, Mr. Amis published “Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million,” a study of the Stalin regime’s atrocities in the Soviet Union.
From New York Times • May 20, 2023
Dread doused Harry’s jubilation: Ron was saying exactly what he had suspected and feared him to be thinking.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing dread
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"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell
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