stressed out
Example Sentences
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That hit a chord with stressed-out youth struggling in China's highly competitive job market and sluggish economy.
From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026
Masha Maltsava, a Los Angeles-based photographer, says she spent much of her young adulthood stressed-out and sleep-deprived.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025
What she views as playful antics look like stressed-out apes bouncing off their steel mesh walls.
From Salon • Aug. 18, 2024
One of p53’s roles is to orchestrate cellular senescence, telling stressed-out, unruly cells to stop dividing before they cause problems.
From Science Magazine • May 16, 2024
When my friend was an inexperienced young doctor, he was called into a hospital room to deal with a married couple stressed-out by a mysterious illness.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
