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superstition

noun as in belief in sign of things to come

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The Argentine author, whose writing habitually draws on the uncanny, here delivers a blend of superstition, dread and a leitmotif of mental instability in a register of acute psychological realism.

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Equally, they are tools for establishing superstitions, glorifying despots and dignifying atrocity.

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For Ade, it was not superstition but a business expense.

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We are overwhelmed by suspicion and superstition alike — and I’m not just talking about RFK Jr.

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Leroy, observing an old superstition, made an oath to the awakening cicadas that he will turn himself in if he’s given the chance to make peace with Berta.

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