nerve-racking
Example Sentences
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“It’s nerve-racking because it’s affecting all markets,” Love added.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
While essentially a disaster film, the visually alarming and nerve-racking “Fukushima” is also a cross-cultural psychodrama, about an industry, and perhaps a society, having a meltdown all its own.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
“There is a little less anxiety now,” she added, recalling the nerve-racking days after Maduro’s forced exit.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
Distribution — where you start to draw money from those funds, like an expensive wine in your cellar — can be nerve-racking.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026
The last harassment missions were nerve-racking for the 46th Guards in their open-cockpit Po-2s.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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