suspicion
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It came out of the post-Watergate ’70s, when distrust of institutions was running high, but Spielberg directed most of that suspicion toward the government, not the alien visitors.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Then the black Mercedes CLC collided with a marked police car, injuring Turnbull, and the driver was arrested initially on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026
The press and the public usually reacted with suspicion and mockery upon seeing Monroe reading.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
If a recipe offered a shortcut, I generally regarded it with suspicion.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
While hardly an earthshaking question, it had symbolic significance because of the obsessive American suspicion of monarchy, which haunted all conversations about the powers of the presidency under the recently ratified Constitution.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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