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be apprehensive of
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Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
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Now imagine an unconnected person who's at best semi-literate in English, and may even be apprehensive of foreign languages.
The survey of 410 people found that 66% of respondents said they would be apprehensive of using a voice assistant in a hotel room, because of concerns over privacy, 90% said they would like to control the ways corporations use their data, even if it meant sacrificing convenience.
Non-English speaking and/or immigrant minorities may be apprehensive of continuous monitoring devices.
It is in part the idea of the naturalness of pregnancy and childbirth that causes childbearing women in this study to be apprehensive of any interventions believed to be 'unnatural', including caesarean section.
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I'd always been apprehensive of the Tasman Sea and what we were going to face.
As both patients are now entitled to confidentiality, I am apprehensive of conflicts of interest.
I could finally say that I was Algerian without being apprehensive of how people would respond.
He added, "Elected officials were afraid of them and communities were apprehensive of them".
Having been apprehensive of an in-out EU referendum for two decades, my feelings have been transformed overnight.
When Charles finally arrived in Spain in September 1517, his supporters were already disillusioned, and the country was apprehensive of the rule of a foreigner.
The rice famine caused by the floods throughout China has extended to Shanghai, and the officials are apprehensive of serious risings in the vicinity.
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