emotional upset
Example Sentences
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"I don't want the emotional upset of possibly not being able to afford it and then having to ask for somebody to rehome the cat as well."
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2025
Just over 8 percent of the patients surveyed said they had experienced anger or emotional upset within a day of symptom onset, which served as the control period.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
But I believe that confronting whiteness and the myths associated with it would cause great emotional upset for many white people.
From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2020
“Never, at least in my 42 years of experience, has it been brought up that it was specifically around a lie, but emotional upset sometimes can be a trigger,” he said.
From Slate ● Nov. 25, 2019
He had been watching her for further signs of emotional upset.
From Anything You Can Do ... by Randall Garrett
