anxiety
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Data-security startup raises more than $1.9 billion in 15 months as Wall Street AI anxiety leads to an investor surge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Basildon Hospital in Essex settled claims from 121 staff, including 85 midwives, who took legal action after reporting fatigue, anxiety, headaches and "brain fog" after the gas levels breached safety limits.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Blanca Ortiz has cycled through bouts of sadness, anxiety and anger ever since her husband was detained by federal immigration agents five months ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
“My social media routine has slowly changed over the last year or so, as I’ve felt more anxiety around it,” Sydney Graham, a sewing-pattern designer, told me over email.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026
I nod, trying not to let my anxiety show.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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They instead often raised expectations, forced dependency and gave rise to a vision of progress that reinforced social exclusion, bred anxieties about status, and concealed the environmental costs of a culture built on consumption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
It describes several overlapping anxieties about modern restaurant food, but its prehistory belongs, at least partly, to the ghost kitchen.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Over the summer, those anxieties deepened after Netflix said it would publish viewership data less frequently.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
We’re awash in apocalyptic anxieties about rogue technology.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
That confirmed Bram’s anxieties and he came to me the next day and urged me to modify the speech.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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