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concern

[kuhn-surn] / kənˈsɜrn /






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Concern implies an anxious sense of interest in something: concern over a friend's misfortune. Care suggests a heaviness of spirit caused by dread, or by the constant pressure of burdensome demands: Poverty weighs a person down with care. Worry is an active state of agitated uneasiness and restless apprehension: He was distracted by worry over the stock market.

Example Sentences

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The same concern applies to the agave redworm moth.

From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2026

Fitzmaurice decided it was time to resign out of concern for her health during the prolonged dispute.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

My deeper concern is that Patricia, now 39, may be neglecting her own future while trying to plan for everyone else’s.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 25, 2026

Justice Samuel Alito expressed concern in one 2016 memo that failure to stay the Clean Power Plan would render “our institutional legitimacy—a nullity.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

He looks at me with concern and asks in a low voice, “How’s your dad doing?”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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