concern
Usage
What are other ways to say concern?
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. Worry is an active state of agitated uneasiness and restless apprehension: He was distracted by worry over the stock market.Example Sentences
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The Department of Homeland Security said only "for operational security, ICE does not release information concerning deportation flight schedules."
From Barron's
Stephen Innes said the surge in gold indicated deeper structural concerns.
From Barron's
Their biggest concerns today are bloat and runaway expenses.
The Justice Department investigation nominally concerns Powell’s congressional testimony last summer about the Fed’s $2.5 billion headquarters renovation.
“If the U.S. government is unilaterally going into a sovereign country and apprehending somebody, you can understand the concern that sovereign entity might have,” Colombo told reporters outside the courthouse on Tuesday.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
