worry
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Individual projects still would require zoning reviews, so no need to worry about skyscrapers coming to Silver Lake.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Programmes to attract international workers have fuelled public worry.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
In response to an inquiry about whether there was enough food onboard, one ship responded in terse Farsi: “Do not worry about our food.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The rise of phone calls once led people to worry about in-person interactions.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
“Why, Mama? What do you have to worry for? I’ve been all over those bottoms. You know that.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
PARIS—The French government aims to cut tens of billions of euros in spending next year as it seeks to calm investor worries that have driven the country’s borrowing costs to their highest levels in decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Inflation worries have been behind some of the large quarterly jumps in Treasury yields seen in the past — including in the early 1980s, when the Fed was fighting inflation with higher policy rates.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
What worries me more is the financial engineering.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
Micron stock faces headwinds from higher bond yields and AI slowdown worries.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
“No wonder the Charmed One worries about you! You haven’t the brains of a worm!”
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
When spreads start widening like they are now, it tells me investors are becoming more worried about losing their money.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
He said people inside Google privately worried among themselves about how their AI use was affecting their own cognitive skills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
A stay-at-home mom to three kids in Dallas at the time, she grew worried watching her youngest son come home crying after testing, and watching the climate of the school change.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
"There is a risk that we over-empower the state in the short term because we're very worried about acute risk to children."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
The way Papa was carrying on had me a little worried.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
He’s far from the only person worrying about the record prices of diesel, gasoline, jet fuel and other oil products.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
U.S. stocks end modestly lower after a worrying monthly survey of consumer confidence was offset by a Federal Reserve official cautioning against hasty rate hikes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
These worrying signals keep coming, according to Jonathan Krinsky, technical analyst at BTIG.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
The MP for the area, Roz Savage, described the situation as "worrying".
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Morgan Stanley’s elite bond traders did not spend a lot of time worrying about this.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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