tension
Example Sentences
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“When I’m doing my podcast, especially in person, there’s very, very little tension,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times
"This operation is not a declaration of war, nor an attempt to escalate tensions," Khanbashi was cited as saying in a statement by the official Saba Net news agency.
From Barron's
“Things are calm, but you can feel the tension.”
“Fractured trade and geopolitical tensions are not transient problems, but permanent features of a fragmented world,” Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said in his 2026 New Year message.
Previous format changes have not always worked out, such as the highly unpopular "Seer" twist last year, which effectively made it impossible for one particular player to win, and removed the tension from the finale.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
