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The phrase "dread of being" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a feeling of fear or anxiety in regard to a certain situation or activity. For example, "He had a dread of being alone in the dark."
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For several weeks, she lived in dread of being discovered.
Our dread of being truly exposed, and fully known.
The characters are filled with the dread of being unmasked as merely ordinary people.
Like most shy people, he has a dread of being boring.
Is it the dread of being mired in an endless, automated phone tree?
But he wonders if they are forgetting about the deep-rooted human dread of being fleeced.
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These days that means tech-hardware makers, which are vulnerable to the dread accusation of being in a commoditybusiness.
There's a mania about the moving that cleverly masks a dread even more profound than that of not being human, and that is the dread of not being married.
After a moment of dread, the thought of being tossed in jail actually began to delight me.
Finally, I dread the mortification of being a cyborg: a creature part organic, part inorganic.
Today, I dread the prospect of being weighed down by a rapidly depreciating hunk of plastic and metal.
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