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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My one concern is that director Craig Gillespie made the too-squishy “Cruella.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
“My concern is about the publicizing of these kinds of incidents as a tool to frighten people,” Weiser said.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
I suppose I shouldn’t care, but I do, and that is another of its virtues, for what is living without concern for the future?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
"My only concern with Alonso is more to do with style," said Murphy.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Ivan and all his remaining brothers were gathered behind her on the road, watching with matching expressions of concern.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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