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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This follows investor concern earlier this month that new Chief Executive Martin Sion would withdraw guidance, Wilkie says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
On a larger scale, AI data centers are at the forefront of local protests and environmental concern, with the megaprojects polluting acres of once peaceful land, using up precious resources and driving up electricity prices.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026
Speaking to Sky News on Thursday, Business Secretary Peter Kyle said the availability of carbon dioxide was not a concern for the British economy "at this moment."
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
“The group moving as a monolith creates some concern about how durable this rally is,” Materne wrote in a Thursday note, pointing out that small-cap and midcap software names have surged alongside large-cap stocks.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026
“I had to take the morning off work for something that doesn’t concern me because Marlene” —he jutted a thumb at his wife—“forced me to.”
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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