antsy
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“I think people are antsy about it, because they just don’t know whether Warsh will come up and surprise us,” Tang said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026
After 28 years of watching World Cups from football's wilderness, there was never much danger of the Tartan Army getting antsy about the gridlock on the road to Foxborough.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Americans don’t like fraud—they want action to clean it up—though they get antsy at the thought of denied aid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Investors are getting antsy about a credit bubble and contagion effects cross the $20 trillion industry.
From Barron's ● Feb. 20, 2026
I’m antsy to get started, afraid she might change her mind.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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In an expensive hotel room touched with old-fashioned elegance, a husband and wife growing ever antsier in each other’s company keep the floor-length drapes drawn against the City of Light.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2022
But Scherzer is different — antsier, too consumed with all this to sit still even if he has fielded those bunts a thousand times.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
But as night fell, the crowd grew larger and antsier.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2022
Have the regulators gotten antsier in your view?
From The Verge ● Aug. 17, 2021
His next restaurant is called Next, and it sprang from the antsier impulses of a chef who gets bored easily.
From Chicago Tribune ● Feb. 15, 2011
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