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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dreading
fearing
Verb
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With the agents fearing Parias could hit them with his Camry or dislodge it from between their vehicles, one opened fire, prosecutors said.—
Morgan Chesky,
NBC news,
23 Oct. 2025 -
How can a kindly, God-fearing, and ascetic novice monk compete against that?—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Dreading.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dreading. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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