Being launched into the holiday machine with a family that celebrates bigheartedly, boisterously and lavishly became a source of yearly panic and dread for me.
And for one glum moment, we could see only half of all the judges' faces as they waited with silent dread for the looming Smoke Monster to drag them away.
Hyperlocal news sites regard Groupon and other daily deal services with a mixture of love (for flooding their coffers with ad dollars) and dread (for competing with their own deal offerings).
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With the debacle of Vietnam long gone and conscription no longer a dread prospect for America's young men, the forces tend to be held in high civilian esteem.
While banks generally dread more regulation, for vendors new rules can be lucrative.
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Few people have this discussion, and there is good reason for anyone to dread these conversations.
But for travellers who dread the prospect of a long taxi ride on top of a cross-country flight, the perimeter rule is an unnecessary hassle.
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The news from Pakistan following this week's elections for the national and provincial assemblies tentatively is positive for a country awash in dread of escalating terrorist violence and political stalemate.
After using the mobile iPhoto for a while, you may dread going back to your PC to upload images from cameras or smartphones.
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It is hard to imagine any political alignment that could risk moving too fast for Japan's voters, who dread the unpredictable.
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Sunday, the Bush camp for the first time felt some genuine dread.
We are all eager for new knowledge that will enable us to avoid developing dread diseases.
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But the minister's admiration for British ingenuity is mingled with a barely-concealed dread: that the most promising offerings from the labs might not be turned into commercial products by British companies.
Despite the celebrations there are those who dread the coming of Halloween and all that it may bring, for it is the time of year when barriers between the realms are weakest.
Kentucky stayed close for the first 10 minutes with their "40 minutes of dread" defense.
There is no substitute for plowing through the book, night after night in impending dread, much as we are doing today watching the evening news.
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Other tests work, though not in time for patients to act, leaving them to a life of endless dread.
What you get for your money is a brace of decent shocks, a spray of special effects (look out for the upward-raining bathwater), and almost no sense of dread.
For me, the arrival of golf season comes with a certain amount of dread.
"I dread to think how many hours of my life I spent sitting in that corridor outside his office waiting for the nod to go in, " Hamilton told BBC Sport.
And we'll make it easier, quicker and less expensive for you to file a return, so that April 15th is not a date that is approached with dread every year.
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