harried
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I don’t want to see a TikTok day in the life of a corporate mom’s hourlong commute to a harried desk salad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
She was presented with her award by actor Richard E Grant, who played the Spice Girls' harried manager Clifford in the 1997 movie Spice World.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Initially, Joe and Angela don’t look so different from the pictures of couples we’ve seen before: harried and married, dead when they wed.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
When they were first married, Heather was a harried corporate lawyer working long hours.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 10, 2026
A man, dapper and lean and elderly, approached them, hand extended; on his face a harried expression showed, as if everything recently had begun happening too fast.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
Vocabulary lists containing harried
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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