anxiety
Example Sentences
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While overall crime has been going down in recent years those types of offences have been going up, matched by rising public anxiety.
From BBC
“I’m quite angry, and I’m very scared. My kid wants to go back. … I don’t want to give him too much information because he has a lot of anxiety around all of these changes.”
From Los Angeles Times
Additional onerous rules applied by the Chinese government on rare-earth exports last year has raised the anxiety around procurement of these materials in the future for the rest of the world.
Worries about a civil judgment in Alberta fuel anxiety.
But the film’s noirish atmosphere of postwar anxiety and the movie’s cast of misfits and criminals mirrored the world she briefly inhabited.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.