trepidation
Example Sentences
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Women at the time said they looked at every single man with trepidation, and police officers were stationed on many of the town's roads.
From BBC
Analyst John McPeake believes trepidation on Wall Street on Quantum Computing has to do with the company’s ‘relatively little revenue.’
From Barron's
No wonder that the century in which we now live is still widely regarded as, at heart, a new one, filled with both promise and trepidation.
We near its end with equal amounts relief and trepidation.
From Los Angeles Times
Next year, Ravinder and Gita will have been married for half a century, the trepidations of youth dispelled by time.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.