trepidation

The Chinese models are causing trepidation at leading U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

But for all of Tom and Anna’s trepidation toward Max, they do little to thwart him from being all up in their business.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

England's performance had its flaws and it is too soon to get carried away – but future opponents will have viewed their attacking display with some trepidation.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

But you don’t need to be from Mexico to understand the significance, reverence, and trepidation that surround this hulking pile nicknamed El Coloso de Santa Úrsula.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Sharpe and Mr. Gitney both felt considerable trepidation at the onset of what promised to be the most mischievous of calamities.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Next year, Ravinder and Gita will have been married for half a century, the trepidations of youth dispelled by time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 25, 2025

I was nervous that he would have trepidations — ‘Oh, I’ve got this sick person on set.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

"I had trepidations about coming at all, but I'm glad I did," he says.

From BBC ● May 30, 2023

With each passing day, rail workers are getting their story out about their trepidations about the length, weight and make-up of the toxic train that originated in Illinois and was headed east to Pennsylvania.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2023

The feeling uppermost in his mind was that Dick was going to Templeton too, and beyond that his anxieties and trepidations extended no further than the possibility of being called green by his new schoolfellows.

From Follow My leader The Boys of Templeton by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)