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How to use the word Trepidation in a Sentence?

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Greet the New Year not with trepidation but with the courage to script your own narrative of triumph and self-discovery.

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
4 months ago

There’s a finite pool of talent for presidential campaigns available, and in large, multi-candidate fields there’s intense competition for them. You see this before every presidential cycle when there’s an open shot at the nomination, additionally, even though President Trump starts as the front-runner for the Republican nomination, there’s a lot of trepidation among staffers about working for him. He’s been volatile in the past, and staff haven’t always ended their service with him on great terms. So there’s a desire to look at some of the other candidates in the field and jump on board.

Ryan Williams

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Almost everyone is going into 2023 with a healthy dose of trepidation, the outlook is understandably gloomy and will remain so unless something significant changes, either on the war in Ukraine or inflation.

Craig Erlam

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of kind unease, trepidation among certainly the more traditional people in the game. City Connect has been one of the great marketing successes in the game in recent years, i think that it’s important to experiment with things like that in order to give the game a little different look. I never thought that a baseball team wearing different jerseys in a game was a particularly appealing look for us. I understand that people can have different views on that topic, but it is part of a larger program designed to market the game in a nontraditional way.

Rob Manfred

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Actually, I didn’t have apprehension so much about the COVID as I did about some other issues, like terrorism, i had a little trepidation last night. But we’re both vaccinated. When we got into a crowd, we wore our masks. I just wish people would get vaccinated, so this would end.

Pat James

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The national mood is not sympathetic to the police, i think we'll find balance down the road. We always do. But right now there's trepidation about proactive police work.

Chuck Wexler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is three in a row for [ brother ] Willie's kids and we're excited about it, sadie Robertson know, it's really pretty amazing because when the show first started, I think our only trepidation about doing a show where Sadie Robertson're kind of thrusting Sadie Robertson kids and Sadie Robertson teenagers into the limelight, I think that was all of our greatest fears, and for me as my grandkids because my kids are older.

Sadie Robertson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The first feeling I had about universities and schools reopening was fear, fear of lives lost, fear of the academic and social impact, and fear of how to accurately make decisions in a time where everything seems uncertain and ever changing. I also felt a distinct trepidation towards institutions who need student tuition if they want to remain afloat.

Aleah Colón-Alfonso

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Although there are private communications contained in the warrants, they prove no crime. I have no trepidation about their release, there is, to this day, no evidence that I had or knew about the source or content of the Wikileaks disclosures prior to their public release.

Roger Stone

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Roger Stone replied that Roger Stone was doing everything possible to address the issues at the highest level of Government. Pentagon Papers showe the extent of the FBIs surveillance, which included monitoring essentially all of Stones Apple services, from email to browsing history. Utility bills, address books, WhatsApp messages -- all were also under the bureaus review. Additionally, records illustrate the Trump campaigns curiosity about what information WikiLeaks was going to make public -- and reinforce Robert Muellers conclusion that the Donald Trump team didnt conspire with WikiLeaks or Russian hackers to obtain the materials.Former White House adviser Steve Bannon told Robert Muellers team under questioning that Steve Bannon had asked Stone about WikiLeaks because Robert Muellers had heard that Roger Stone had a channel to Assange, and he was hoping for more releases of damaging information. Muellers investigation identifiedcontacts during the 2016 campaign between Donald Trump associates and Russians, but did not identify any conspiracy to tip the outcome of the presidential election. The lengthy investigation fueled numerous conspiracy theories that aired regularly on MSNBC and CNN, as well as in print inThe Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. FILE - This Feb. 21, 2019, file courtroom sketch shows former campaign adviser for President Donald Trump, Roger Stone talking from the witness stand as prosecution attorney Jonathan Kravis, standing left, Stone's attorney Bruce Rogow, third from right, and Judge Amy Berman Jackson listen, during a court hearing at the U.S. District Courthouse in Washington. Jonathan Kravis will run a new public corruption unit at the District of Columbia Office of the Attorney General, which has jurisdiction over juvenile offenses as well as misdemeanor crimes. ( Dana Verkouteren via Associated Press, File) In a statement Tuesday, Roger Stone acknowledged that the search warrant affidavits contain private communication, but insisted that they prove no crimes. I have no trepidation about their release as they confirm there was no illegal activity and certainly no Russian collusion by me during the 2016 Election.

Roger Stone

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Now there's a little trepidation that if the data is coming in strong why are we cutting rates? the market's thinking he's going to cut rates in July and then that'll be it.

Ken Polcari

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This trepidation, the anxiety, it's everywhere, it's all over the world, i was looking out over the city, London, a beautiful city, and the thing I love about it is it is truly representative of true international diversity, in ways that you don't see in cities, most cities particularly, even in the United States, and that is a gift.

Aisha Chipampe

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There's always trepidation going into a Fed meeting, anything that gives visibility to the potential for future rate hikes is going to keep people on the sidelines.

Tim Ghriskey

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It wasn’t. I’m sure there was a moment of trepidation about it, or thinking, ‘What will it be like?’ But, there wasn’t any.

Dominic Cooper

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

People feel fear, trepidation, hurt feelings, but you know what mostly the prevalent feeling is? A surge of patriotism.

Keith Ellison

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The indices are treading water today ... there seems to be a little bit of trepidation at the moment because of what's been going on in Paris this morning and overnight.

Augustin Eden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The significance of any Greek default at this juncture is that the negative psyche that results will mix with the trepidation that's already out there over the global financial cycle, hence, we'd see default as a pretty traumatic event for the markets, even if many seem to doubt this right now.

Steve Barrow

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What's going to happen is that Wall Street will continue to go forward with some trepidation, trying to do some big deals, people are going to hesitate.

Carl Hittinger

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The economic and financial news has been grim, things are now so bad that I actually open the Greenbook with greater trepidation than my 401(k).

Janet Yellen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

A sizeable percentage of the market is factoring in some sort of quantitative-easing announcement, so there's a touch of trepidation, investors have bought the rumour so they could sell the news.

Alistair McCaig

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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