fret
Example Sentences
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When it comes to exciting wide men, however, it's hard to look past those elite dribblers who rouse crowds and make full-backs fret.
From BBC
I stop fretting about my phone signal and the flight from Santa Fe.
From Literature
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No one wants to hear a leader publicly fret over the range of possible outcomes of a course he’s chosen.
Chicago Bears team president Kevin Warren spends more time these days worrying about shifts in the credit market and the price of steel than fretting over offseason trade buzz.
The S&P 500 is down 3.7% over the same period as Wall Street frets that the Iran war will lead to a flare-up in inflation.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.