Idiom
I fear
Meaning
Used in apprehension or embarrassment.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I fear I cannot help you with that today.”
“I fear the train is delayed, so we will arrive at the station much later than planned.”
“I fear that despite our best efforts to resolve the conflict, the situation remains far more precarious than we initially anticipated.”
Examples
simple
“I fear I cannot help you with that today.”
contextual
“I fear the train is delayed, so we will arrive at the station much later than planned.”
complex
“I fear that despite our best efforts to resolve the conflict, the situation remains far more precarious than we initially anticipated.”
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