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restlessly



ADVERB
fitfully
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ADVERB
nervously
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Family members and friends stood around restlessly in the waiting room, where a hospital worker tried to maintain order in the chaos.

From Barron's Jun. 25, 2026

Musk had been an early investor in Hassabis’s AI company, DeepMind, which was three years into its restlessly ambitious pursuit of artificial general intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 25, 2026

We roam relentlessly through our memories of the past and ruminate restlessly on the future, thinking, if only it was this perfectly verifiable way, or that exactly quantifiable way.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 2025

He experimented restlessly with technology, trying out telephoto pictures of Kanchenjunga.

From BBC Feb. 8, 2025

She could hear it, the patter of footsteps, many running restlessly along the floors beneath her.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny




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