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worry

[wur-ee, wuhr-ee] / ˈwɜr i, ˈwʌr i /




Usage

What are other ways to say worry? Worry is an active state of agitated uneasiness and restless apprehension: He was distracted by worry over the stock market. 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.

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I worry a small kitchen means the end of Thanksgiving, and that the grandkids will come less often if there’s no yard.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Another worry: how melanoma is treated is changing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

She said she was also told by the investigator that there was a "general worry" that there "would be allegations of transphobia."

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The second half of “You Can See Everything” examines the conjugal nature of denial and doubt as Seyfried and Fielder begin to worry that Evans is exploiting the now-incarcerated Holmes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

“People were cool. And there was always enough floating to the cauldron top that I never had to wrestle or worry about a wheel not being done enough.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Karen Jones, who has lived in the area for 20 years, worries what will happen to their "beautiful garden neighbourhoods".

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Treasury yields fell to their lowest levels since September as worries about French government debt sent investors searching for safe havens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

He’s the only analyst listed on FactSet who rates Nvidia at sell, and he still worries that it faces mounting pressures.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

She worries many of them will develop post-traumatic stress disorders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

These thoughts dropped on top of the hillock of crop worries in my heart.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

"It was getting a bit distressing," she said, and both mother and daughter had worried it might collapse in the night when Sabrina moved.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

She worried about the route that authorities had mandated for the demonstration in Paris, pointing out that parts of it were "extremely narrow" and that it passed by a gas station.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

Prominent marine biology professor Choi Yoon told local media that experts were particularly worried about a "critical" injury around the shark's eye.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

There will be no Munich, if that’s what some are worried about.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

As soon as he’d said it, his blood froze, worried that he’d gone too far, for it had been a very long while since he’d made a joke.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

She said: "After working all my life I didn't expect to be constantly worrying about how to keep warm at my age. It is really quite frightening."

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

The cable and entertainment company’s quarterly earnings beat analysts’ expectations, but bleeding in the key broadband business continued at a worrying pace.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Secondly, why is anyone worrying about the nighttime Zzzzzs of television executives?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Austen will never go out of style because we’re not going to reach a point when we stop worrying about money, status and the gobsmacking difficulty of telling someone you love them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

At first, I was worrying about all of those people watching and listening.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan


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