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In adult jails across Maryland, minors spend up to 23 hours a day in isolation, go without schooling, and in some cases avoid showering for fear of being raped.
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Rachel Baye, NPR, 5 June 2025
This isn’t the kind of spa where employees avoid your eyeline or won’t greet you in the hallways for fear of interrupting your inner peace, and this genuine friendliness comes as a welcome surprise in the often-intimidating heart of Hollywood.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 3 June 2025
Thomas Wright: Trump’s basic misunderstanding about the war in Ukraine
For three years, the Biden administration simultaneously supported Ukraine and discouraged major attacks on Russian soil, for fear of provoking Vladimir Putin too much.
—Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
It is written in the terror of the faces of the parents who kept their children inside for fear of losing them to gang violence.
—Ronald S. Safer, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025
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Rachel Baye, NPR, 5 June 2025
This isn’t the kind of spa where employees avoid your eyeline or won’t greet you in the hallways for fear of interrupting your inner peace, and this genuine friendliness comes as a welcome surprise in the often-intimidating heart of Hollywood.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 3 June 2025
Thomas Wright: Trump’s basic misunderstanding about the war in Ukraine
For three years, the Biden administration simultaneously supported Ukraine and discouraged major attacks on Russian soil, for fear of provoking Vladimir Putin too much.
—Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 2 June 2025
It is written in the terror of the faces of the parents who kept their children inside for fear of losing them to gang violence.
—Ronald S. Safer, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2025
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“For fear of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/for%20fear%20of. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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