1
as in fretting
to experience concern or anxiety
they worried for days about whether the loan would be approved
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as in bothering
to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy
those strange noises outside the house worry me
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Recent Examples of worrying
Of course, the relationship could be less about the oil price itself and more about investors worrying over the burgeoning conflict between Iran and Israel.
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Jesse Pound, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
When the conversation turned to gun violence and mass shootings at schools, the two VP contenders, who are both fathers, expressed empathy for each other as worrying parents.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, a pregnant woman was crying on the phone, worrying about running out of water.
—Dylan Tupper Rupert, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2024
This process frees your subconscious mind from worrying about what comes next because everything is recorded.
—Carlos Hoyos, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Jesse Pound, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
When the conversation turned to gun violence and mass shootings at schools, the two VP contenders, who are both fathers, expressed empathy for each other as worrying parents.
—Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2024
Meanwhile, a pregnant woman was crying on the phone, worrying about running out of water.
—Dylan Tupper Rupert, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2024
This process frees your subconscious mind from worrying about what comes next because everything is recorded.
—Carlos Hoyos, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for worrying
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Is the trend of sales taking a route that is bothering you?Hitendra Patil, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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In many cases, states have stopped bothering to make legal justifications at all, the Human Rights Committee report warned.Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Oct. 2024
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Wiener had defended the bill, stressing that its provisions only apply to companies that spend more than $100 million on training large models or $10 million fine-tuning models, limits that would exempt most smaller startups.Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
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The United States can make a powerful case for its economic leadership by stressing fairness, transparency, and accountability.Michael J. Green, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2021
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Others, though, aren’t yet sweating about the strike.Tori Latham, Robb Report, 3 Oct. 2024
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Amazon Infrared Sauna Blanket-Sauna Blanket for Home Use This product is designed to inhibit sweating by raising body temperture in order to mimic the effects of a sauna.Mason Leib, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2024
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This also avoids a brightness instability problem that can afflict the TV’s Standard mode, where the image suffers distracting brightness ‘jumps’ or ‘drops’ when an HDR image cuts abruptly between bright and dark shots.John Archer, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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The boy’s life is organized around distracting himself, especially since his mother (Jodie Whittaker) works long days and nights as a nurse.Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2024
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This is exemplified by the ways in which people were tying themselves in knots to appropriately grieve Payne’s death without angering anyone critical of his alleged behavior.Lucy Ford, TIME, 21 Oct. 2024
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Google Chrome has started to remove ad blockers that don’t support its new Manifest V3 initiative, angering some users of the privacy preserving technology.Kate O'Flaherty, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Worrying.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worrying. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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