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Discover LudwigThe phrase "stoked fear" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a situation or action that has heightened or intensified feelings of fear. Example: "The horror movie was so well-made that it stoked fear in the audience long after it ended."
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At every stage of the past century or two, population figures have stoked fear.
The malfunction in Chicago stoked fear again among regulators and reignited concerns about the market's vulnerability to broader shocks.
The rebels say the government, dominated by Mr. Assad's Shiite Alawite sect, stoked fear among minorities to keep them loyal.
A recent spate of prosecutions under the act of firms operating in China and other notoriously crooked places has stoked fear in the heart of many executives.
Its debt woes have stoked fear that it might even need to follow Greece and request a bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.
The roundups have stoked fear among the Chinese migrants and anger at home, generating more than one million posts about the topic on one popular microblog.
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That has stoked fears the United States could be dragged down into a double-dip recession.
That stoked fears that the NSA is hoovering up information on a grand scale.
The impasse had stoked fears of a return to sectarian violence.
And it stoked fears of renewed violence as American troops were beginning to withdraw.
Some reasoned this might have stoked fears of an imminent devaluation by Beijing.
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