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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He mentored thousands of students and faculty members for decades, and frequently confronted administrators for what he believed was their lack of concern over the needs of minority students and staffers.
From Los Angeles Times
Students have been told to vacate a city centre housing block over safety concerns with the building.
From BBC
The only real concern was whether the company could continue paying the promised check.
From MarketWatch
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is raising concerns about a popular YouTuber’s recent venture into financial services with his acquisition of a banking app called Step and its connection to a bank with a troubled history.
From MarketWatch
A majority see him as focused on problems abroad rather than at home, and on problems other than their principal concerns.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
