The word foreboding has appeared in 83 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 23 in “Lethal Threat or Tolerable Risk? Ukrainians Must Judge Constantly” by Marc Santora:
Virtually no one in Ukraine has been left untouched by the violence, destruction and bloodshed. But many say they had found strength in the country’s shared sacrifice and the collective struggle for survival.
The sense of foreboding and chaos that marked the early days of the war faded long ago. Now it is more a matter of enduring, and taking pleasure in small things like the recent resumption of the trolleys, which had been sidelined by Russian attacks on power plants.
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