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

The 55-year-old educator and Mondawmin resident likes the challenge of the inclines that inspired a race through the West Baltimore park: the Dreaded Druid Hills 10K.

From Washington Post • Sep. 18, 2021

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