nervous

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A year after finally completing golf’s grand slam, Rory McIlroy was pleased to know he was still feeling a bit nervous as he teed off at the Masters.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

"People were quite scandalised, nervous, terrified about the possibility of what could potentially go wrong - bringing 50 lions to the Wiltshire countryside."

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026

But would-be buyers remain nervous about the job market and reluctant to pay high home prices, so it could take more than a small drop in rates to bring them off the sidelines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

"Everybody on the shipping side is obviously nervous," Lloyd's List editor-in-chief Richard Meade told AFP.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

She’d been nervous as a cat when I first started at Formann’s, though over the last two and a half weeks she seemed to have gotten used to it.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu