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anxiety

[ang-zahy-i-tee] / æŋˈzaɪ ɪ ti /


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"When I'm feeling low with my depression or anxiety and more anxious about going out I know that I can come to Happy Mums, I look forward to it," she said.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The AI trade has powered the market to records, but some pockets of the industry are giving investors anxiety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Threets detailed sleepwalking episodes he found terrifying, panic attacks he thought were heart attacks and intrusive thoughts tied to his depression and anxiety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

The resignations were the most clear indicators yet of an anxiety that has been bubbling away for over a year among some Liberal Democrat MPs.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

“I’m happy to hear that. How’s your anxiety been? Have you needed to make use of any of the strategies we practiced?”

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Geese were always an odd band to pin to anxieties about fabricated culture — if a label had resources and abilities to manufacture stars, why not do it for a 100x-hyperscaling pop act instead?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 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

Macron said earlier this week that he understood the anxieties and anger driving young people to protest but he condemned the violence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Over the summer, those anxieties deepened after Netflix said it would publish viewership data less frequently.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Having so recently been one of the underdogs of the savannah, we are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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