suspense
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Suspense is useful as prologue, but it amounts to a broken promise if there isn’t a satisfying explanation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Suspense builds as Sabine and others wonder what’s real and what’s performative, because either might threaten her life.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2024
Suspense swirls around what that response might be, and often whether one will arrive at all.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023
Suspense over control of the Senate came as it also was still unknown which party will hold the majority in the U.S.
From Reuters • Nov. 12, 2022
Suspense grew, and the commissioner did his best to sustain it.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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