growing suspicion

collocation in English

meaningsofgrowingandsuspicion

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growing
adjective
uk
/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/
us
/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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suspicion
noun
uk
/səˈspɪʃ.ən/
us
/səˈspɪʃ.ən/
a belief or idea that something may ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandsuspicionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The community looks on local authorities withgrowingsuspicion.
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We will confirm theirgrowingsuspicionof the political class.
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The imperative to embrace medical technology during the 1960s and 1970s was gradually replaced by agrowingsuspicionwithin society toward "high-tech" health care.
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I have agrowingsuspicionabout whether the notice was properly given.
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We shall watch suggestions of this kind withgrowingsuspicionand submit them to relentless scrutiny.
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You are then faced with agrowingsuspicionthat they are being evaded.
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It saddens me greatly to see our great values being eroded by thegrowingsuspicionof uninformed cynicism.
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Is not thegrowingsuspicionthat it is going to be used for pre-election tax bribes?
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There is also a great andgrowingsuspicionthat he is manipulating the ration for political purposes.
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Gratitude for our victories in the war, where it formerly existed, has sunk beneath agrowingsuspicionof our intentions.
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In fact, there is agrowingsuspicionthat by revealing unmet need, it will actually increase the demand.
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It is a tragedy that this industry should today be marked bygrowingsuspicionand distrust between the two sides.
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This leads a long-suffering public towards thegrowingsuspicionthat it is suffering to no end and without any purpose being in sight of achievement.
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The fact that it did not, and that the term itself has remained undefined, has resulted ingrowingsuspicionand disillusion.
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Residents with foreign names were sent to internment camps as there wasgrowingsuspicionabout residents with foreign names.
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Matters are not helped by thegrowingsuspicionthat the camp harbours a collaborator in its midst.
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