feared
Example Sentences
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He built them back to a team fans adored and competitors feared.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Sharpton says some legal residents he encountered around Cleveland feared being "snatched up and deported."
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Gibney says even potential sources worth hundreds of millions of dollars feared being sued — an irony, he notes, given Musk’s self-description as a “free speech absolutist.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Asked by Brain's defence barrister why they kept returning, the women said they feared being cut out of the movement which had become their life.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The situation was serious enough that Gerhardt Fischer, Bobby’s father of record, feared Joan and Bobby might be in great danger.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
