concerned to
idiom
chiefly British
: to consider as important to (do something)
She was concerned to show that she could do the job.
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The threat potential is significant, but understanding threat vectors and proactively devising a strategy of vigilance and wise use of cybersecurity solutions will enable all concerned to rest easier as Election Day draws near.
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Adam Jackson, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
The bear was always also, of course, the restaurant business: a feral industry nominally dedicated to leisure and delight that talks a big game about service and celebration while abusing or underpaying its workers, torturing its geniuses, and driving everyone concerned to bankruptcy and despair.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
Researchers aren’t yet sure how concerned to be about the small group of mysteriously shrinking whales or about the Northern Pacific’s gray whales more generally.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 19 June 2024
During their visit to the high-security unit, the inspectors later wrote in their report, they’d been concerned to see a noose in one of the cells.
—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
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Adam Jackson, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
The bear was always also, of course, the restaurant business: a feral industry nominally dedicated to leisure and delight that talks a big game about service and celebration while abusing or underpaying its workers, torturing its geniuses, and driving everyone concerned to bankruptcy and despair.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
Researchers aren’t yet sure how concerned to be about the small group of mysteriously shrinking whales or about the Northern Pacific’s gray whales more generally.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 19 June 2024
During their visit to the high-security unit, the inspectors later wrote in their report, they’d been concerned to see a noose in one of the cells.
—Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
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