anxiety
Example Sentences
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New Delhi’s anxiety about competing with China’s manufacturing juggernaut contributed to its turning away from multilateral trade pacts.
“Haven’t they ever heard of separation anxiety? What is the matter with these people? I have taken care of toddlers with FAS, and they are nothing like Boo.”
From Literature
"Obsessions are intrusive and unwanted thoughts, feelings and sensations while compulsions are repeated, ritualised acts that are done to neutralise or alleviate the anxiety caused by the obsessions," Nina tells the BBC's Complex podcast.
From BBC
Then he telegraphed his core anxiety about the selection—that candidates “say everything I want to hear” during interviews, only to assert their independence once they have been confirmed.
Surveys by the People’s Bank of China show widespread anxiety about job prospects.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
