superstition
Example Sentences
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She has tentatively started another novel but has "a superstition talking about things that I haven't finished yet".
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Death penalty cases related to foreign culture, religion and "superstition" jumped by 250 percent after the border closure.
From Barron's • Apr. 28, 2026
Also, according to superstition, a person’s own animal year is thought to be a time for guardedness.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
According to superstition, each animal has its animal friends and its animal enemies.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
None of this would be a mystery to a young ethnographer-doctor who was able to sort out superstition from legitimate symptoms of illness.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Vocabulary lists containing superstition
Friday the 13th
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