concern
Usage
What are other ways to say concern?
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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"I'm concerned it affects significantly more learners than the 22 that have had their grades raised," he said.
From BBC
The Charity Commission said it had "opened a regulatory compliance case to assess concerns raised" about the charity.
From BBC
While he did not go into detail on what future investigations could focus on, he noted that Washington has concerns on issues ranging from digital services taxes to pharmaceutical pricing.
From Barron's
Judy Domingo, president of the 50,000-strong United Filipino Seafarers union, told AFP she had taken hundreds of calls from concerned sailors bottled up in the strait, with food supplies one of the immediate concerns.
From Barron's
And, he said, "reserves are stockpiles sitting as existing inventory -- the market is more concerned about flows. Moving barrels from point A to point B is not the same as producing new oil".
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
