cold feet

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Noun
  • Lyles was asked if the sense of doom and gloom was a product of all the uncertainty surrounding the team with the trade deadline looming.
    Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Furthermore, players may be left with a sense of uncertainty, especially when a franchise's biggest star is traded away in the dead of night.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The future of The Watcher has been in serious doubt after its co-creator Ryan Murphy moved his overall deal to Disney in 2023.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 30 Jan. 2025
  • If politicians continue to sow doubts about vaccination, or even take steps to restrict vaccine access, then the trend of re-emerging disease will continue.
    Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But Shirley’s husband is a dangerous man and soon the new couple’s burgeoning romance is thrust into a spiral of paranoia, suspense and violence.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2025
  • His performance adds a useful air of melodrama and romantic suspense to a play that is often (for better or worse) unfettered.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Over the course of January 2025, Williams watched in dread as social media videos and news coverage emerged showing Southern California residents whose homes had been destroyed sifting through the rubble unmasked.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Although Ariel is followed around at all times and experiences several creepy encounters with Alfred, any traces of creeping dread are snuffed out by the monotony of the film’s drab visuals.
    Chase Hutchinson, IndieWire, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The 2000 feature, which premiered at Cannes, cemented Coppola as the definitive director to capture young female angst and began her partnership with Dunst.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2025
  • For his part, puppy eyes and moderate angst do not comprise a very tough veneer, despite fistfights thrown in every once in a while.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • My husband Jon and I, after having suffered more than 300 days of every parent’s nightmare of utter and indescribable torment, continued advocating and pushing for the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza.
    Rachel Goldberg-Polin, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
  • This icky masterwork of ’80s horror is best known for introducing us to the Cenobites, the collective of sadomasochistic priests from a Lovecraftian dimension of orgiastic torment, and whose flesh has been twisted, penetrated, and seared to extremes.
    Rory Doherty, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The movie’s very first shot, beautiful yet full of foreboding, finds her swimming in the Atlantic, her peace momentarily disturbed by the roar of a military helicopter overhead.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2025
  • But they are also weighted with foreboding, especially as Carter asks her to perform stranger acts.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The Blue Devils’ run is all the more impressive given the unprecedented number of early-round upsets as Cinderellas remind everyone of their essential place in the tournament’s success and popularity.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Philadelphia will host division rival Washington, a team fresh off an upset of top seed Detroit in the divisional rounds.
    Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2025
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“Cold feet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold%20feet. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.

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