harried
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“And I don’t know if I looked a little harried or rushed, but the first thing she said to me was, ‘Did you have lunch?’
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
A key measure of inflation used by the Federal Reserve to set interest rates posted the biggest increase in March in almost three years, marking another major hurdle for a resilient but harried U.S. economy.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026
Igor Jesus hit his own bar, Richarlison pressed and harried and Mathys Tel produced one of his better displays.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
That puts her in rarefied territory for a family doctor—most of whom are so harried they barely know their patients individually.
From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025
He'd sit at the kitchen table with his flyswatter, watch the flies darting from wall to wall, buzzing here, buzzing there, harried and rushed.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Vocabulary lists containing harried
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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