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for fear that

conj

Definitions

  1. In order to attempt to prevent the risk that (a particular incident or event might occur).

    • He never comes for fear that it'll happen again, and I didn't tell you about it before for fear that he would find out.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for for fear that. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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