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Significats de nail-biting en anglès

(Of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense.

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But it's fun, it's an extra suspenseful element to it, Davis said.
Reuters
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It's suspenseful and adds an incredible sense of scale to the movie.
News.com.au
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Well, we was robbed of a suspenseful episode up until this moment.
The Guardian
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With great performances including from Andrea Riseborough, the suspenseful series will grip you.
News.com.au
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How does his new, suspenseful novel compare with his much-loved music?
Radio NZ
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The king could affix a suspensive veto to the acts of the Cortes.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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We are not to be allowed even a suspensive veto.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
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In 1768 Paucton conceived the idea of an apparatus with two screws, suspensive and propulsive.
Robur the Conqueror
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The question was whether the veto-power was suspensive or absolute as to amendments of the Constitution.
Poems and Songs
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You mean those little metal balls that they used to put in machinery before suspensive magnetic interfaces?
To Honor You Call Us
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Victorian audiences found the ghosts in their favorite melodramas provided emphatic sensations, supernatural thrills, and cliff-hanging action.
Hiding the Elephant
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This was one of those cliff-hanging Tours, but Lance Armstrong was not the man on the edge.
The Irish Times
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The lack of commitment may surprise viewers, given that the final episode of season two ended with a cliff-hanging storyline.
Independent.ie
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I have tried to tell this story as it was experienced at the time, forward rather than backward, preserving its cliff-hanging excitement and unpredictability.
One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
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This yields well-photographed tourist sites, several cliff-hanging sequences -a few literally that -and a capable returning cast playing now-familiar roles in an action-fantasy.
Reuters
Ús de nail-biting en anglès
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The next three days will be a long, nail-biting time for everyone.
The Irish Times
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Everything had been nail-biting and I remembered why I never went anywhere.
Black Deutschland
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It was a great success with nail-biting action on the track.
The South African
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It's that nail-biting time again for Junior Cert teachers and their young students.
The Irish Times
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Mursi was declared the winner on Sunday, a nail-biting week after voting ended.
Reuters
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From there it was a short, nail-biting and ultimately disappointing conclusion.
Reuters
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On the nail-biting side, federal parliament is now in recess for the week.
The Guardian
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An introductory scroll reminds us of the context for this nail-biting political thriller.
The Irish Times
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With the excitement and nail-biting upshot, comes the traffic routes and road closures.
The South African
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However, the nail-biting Nuggets versus Jazz series was the stuff NBA-neutrals dream of.
Jamaica Observer
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It was certainly the kind of nail-biting win with which titles are claimed.
The Guardian
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It's going to be a long, nail-biting day on Wall Street.
The Guardian
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No more nail-biting suspense while the site searches every airline on the planet.
Wired
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Thumb-sucking, nail-biting, blanket-clenching, and bed-wetting characterized her infancy and early childhood.
The new yorker
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Walters's description of the build-up to the breakout makes nail-biting reading.
The Guardian
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A nail-biting week lies ahead for the East of Scotland club Whitehill Welfare.
The Irish Times