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Recent Examples of misgiving
Adjective
Democratic senators have since voiced their misgivings. Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025 Even some in the GOP had misgivings. T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 30 Sep. 2025 Yes, the point difference was largely due to special teams misgivings, but Canales’ situational choices led to some of those miscues. Mike Kaye september 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 Sep. 2025 Some House Republicans are expressing similar misgivings with the direction the country is headed, warning that Kennedy’s ascension to the top of the HHS threatens to undermine a decades-old trust in vaccines that experts say have saved countless lives. Mike Lillis, The Hill, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for misgiving
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misgiving
Noun
  • Eli Drinkwitz has done more with less at Mizzou, and there's little doubt he'll be targeted in this boiling kettle of a market.
    Chase Goodbread, The Tuscaloosa News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • But what has raised Democrats' eyebrows is that Grossbard was a plaintiff in a 2020 lawsuit against state and various county officials, alleging there was enough evidence to place that year's election results into doubt.
    Lily Altavena, Freep.com, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Much of Jana’s campaign echoes the qualms already raised by the other activists in the stock, including the company’s potential to unlock value by reinvigorating the business as a standalone company with a new CEO and/or monetizing the real estate, or even selling the entire company.
    Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Many have such qualms due to the pricing problem.
    Thomas Elias, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Despite its speculative premise, the series captures the loneliness that has pervaded society since the COVID pandemic and the dread of a future in which artificial intelligence might render human interaction obsolete.
    Judy Berman, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The resulting amalgam of curious thoughts, heartfelt angst, expressions of longing or dread, make for a raw, touching saga shared by dozens of people, all seemingly looking for meaning.
    Will Tizard, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In 1917, the Titles Deprivation Act was passed to deal with troublesome royal cousins who sided with Germany in the First World War.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Palmer has been the difference-maker since joining from Manchester City in 2023 but is currently sidelined with a troublesome groin injury that is expected to keep him out for another five weeks.
    Simon Johnson, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Even the culturally ambitious projects such as Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island cultural district, which hosts local chapters of Louvre, Guggenheim, Berklee, and National History Museum, are often greeted with skepticism.
    Bobby Ghosh, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Still, given the dramatic gains recently, there’s plenty of skepticism that Nvidia shares can keep soaring.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The federal agency’s power to green-light sports betting nationwide is the subject of legal objections from states and tribal groups.
    Dan Bernstein, Sportico.com, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Few beside farmers voice objections.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Shanahan, the head coach in Washington from 2010 to 2013, once grilled Paulsen on offensive tackle protections out of worry the tight end might have to play emergency tackle in a preseason game.
    Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Those worries resulted in a European bank stock selloff last week, although the sector quickly rebounded.
    Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Abbott was the first to announce the deployment of the Texas National Guard to Austin through a foreboding statement on X, warning that any disorder wouldn’t be tolerated.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The common names of many of the poisonous Amanita mushrooms include foreboding monikers like death cap mushroom and destroying angel.
    Matt Kasson, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Misgiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misgiving. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.

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