suspicion
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Suspicion also falls on the married owner of the Sahara, who was secretly in love with Zakia, and the dead woman’s boyfriend, who is arrested on evidence of a threatening letter supposedly written by him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Suspicion reigned even after Netanyahu posted a third video, this one with the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
Suspicion soon fell on 20-year-old Samuel Woodward, Bernstein’s former schoolmate at the Orange County School of the Arts, who had admitted to being with him in the park the night he disappeared.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024
Suspicion of foreign espionage, cursive messages in ancient Chinese, a sensitive microchip — and a suspect that could not be stopped at the border.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024
Suspicion flared in Ugwu’s mind; he remembered the black cat that appeared in the backyard after her last visit.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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