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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

Is he at all trepidations about being back in the spotlight?

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2022

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.)