feared
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of feared
Aphetic form of afeard
Example Sentences
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Washington lost Jayden Daniels to an elbow injury, and Chicago’s Caleb Williams was carted off the field in tears, although that hamstring injury apparently wound up less serious than originally feared.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
"It was a moment of, in one sense, the news that you don't want to hear and obviously, as time went on, it was the news we feared the most," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The price of Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell nearly 1% to $104.82 a barrel on hopes that disruption to exports via a damaged Saudi pipeline may not be as severe as initially feared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
OpenAI was founded in part because its backers, including first investor Elon Musk, feared that AI's development would end up in the hands of Google, which they believed could not be trusted with the technology.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
“If Tokyo needed to be evacuated,” he later said, “I feared the entire nation of Japan would be paralyzed by chaos for quite a long time.”
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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