franticness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for franticness
Noun
  • While some financial hiccups are normal in early adulthood, ongoing instability could signal deeper struggles with budgeting, impulsivity or even financial anxiety.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Merz vowed to bring stronger leadership in Europe at a moment when Trump had sowed anxiety on the continent by scrambling traditional alliances and embracing Russia.
    Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Despite scoring four goals in 11 first-half minutes, there was a sense of unease around St James’ Park in the second half before Newcastle United finally saw out victory against Nottingham Forest.
    Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Walmart, Akamai Other corporate reports have added to the sense of unease on Wall Street, including Walmart's most recent earnings report.
    CBS News, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In the months since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election in November, policymakers in Beijing have been looking to the next four years of U.S.-Chinese relations with trepidation.
    Yun Sun, Foreign Affairs, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Fed officials have refrained from commenting directly on policy clashes in Washington, but have expressed a level of trepidation about trying to prejudge events.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • What the public worries about is clarity from their politicians.
    Carlton Reid, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Another major worry for those who’ve been able to live in their homes is all the trash.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Olivero says climate change perturbations continue to concern the winery.
    Michelle Williams, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • However, as the comet recedes from the sun, planetary perturbations will make the orbit even more elongated, so the next return to perihelion (of whatever of it is that is still left of it) will be about 600,000 years hence.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Social practice art in Latin America existed mainly through the efforts of small, noncommercial, artist-run initiatives within the fractious context of political agitation and protest.
    Fabiola Iza, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Aster hopes the new seismic stations will reveal why the lava lake can shift from agitation to years of quiet and why, in earlier times, Erebus erupted more violently.
    ByPaul Voosen, science.org, 3 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The United States wins the Olympic gold medal in men’s curling in a decisive upset of Sweden.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The games have already yielded their fair share of upsets.
    C. Isaiah Smalls II, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But this apparent calm masks major sources of disquiet.
    Paul Staniland, Foreign Affairs, 4 Jan. 2019
  • Meanwhile, the voices of disquiet around them are getting louder.
    Patrick Boyland, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
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“Franticness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/franticness. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.

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