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(Of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense.
suspenseful
suspensive
cliff-hanging
tense
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The next three days will be a long,
nail
-
biting
time for everyone.
2
Everything had been
nail
-
biting
and I remembered why I never went anywhere.
3
It was a great success with
nail
-
biting
action on the track.
4
It's that
nail
-
biting
time again for Junior Cert teachers and their young students.
5
Mursi was declared the winner on Sunday, a
nail
-
biting
week after voting ended.
6
From there it was a short,
nail
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biting
and ultimately disappointing conclusion.
7
On the
nail
-
biting
side, federal parliament is now in recess for the week.
8
An introductory scroll reminds us of the context for this
nail
-
biting
political thriller.
9
With the excitement and
nail
-
biting
upshot, comes the traffic routes and road closures.
10
However, the
nail
-
biting
Nuggets versus Jazz series was the stuff NBA-neutrals dream of.
11
It was certainly the kind of
nail
-
biting
win with which titles are claimed.
12
It's going to be a long,
nail
-
biting
day on Wall Street.
13
No more
nail
-
biting
suspense while the site searches every airline on the planet.
14
Thumb-sucking,
nail
-
biting
,
blanket-clenching, and bed-wetting characterized her infancy and early childhood.
15
Walters's description of the build-up to the breakout makes
nail
-
biting
reading.
16
A
nail
-
biting
week lies ahead for the East of Scotland club Whitehill Welfare.