fear
Example Sentences
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Residents, with January’s terrifyingly slow evacuation still fresh in their minds, fear added density would only make evacuations worse.
From Los Angeles Times
Although students have adjusted well to the rules, some initially feared the school could use Opal to peer into their phone screens, said junior Charlotte Im, another student council member who tested Opal.
From Los Angeles Times
She told the BBC people "cannot live in fear" following the attack.
From BBC
“I asked some friends why they don’t dance in public and some said because of the fear of being filmed,” he wrote on Instagram.
Oil nudged down as traders closed out a year in which oversupply fears pushed the commodity lower, despite ongoing geopolitical tensions.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.