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Some analysts have fretted in recent months about Buffett’s smaller role at the firm.

The digital tokens were rebounding as investors bet that the U.S. shutdown was nearing an end, having tumbled last week as investors fretted about lofty artificial-intelligence valuations.

Wordle addicts panicked that their long-running streaks would be reset to zero, students fretted over blown deadlines as their Canvas learning portals stopped working.

Once or twice, I fretted Raiff might be steering his ship to some cliched dark outcome, but I needn’t have worried.

"They're travelling in inhuman conditions," fretted the mayor of Mbandaka, who had come to the riverbank to check the boat was not overloaded and the passengers would be provided with life jackets.