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Even if he doesn’t call it anxiety, he admits he sometimes has trouble focusing, and there’s a tenseness in his body that can be hard to shake off.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2024

These incidents leave “an underlying anger and tenseness in people,” Holz says.

From Science Magazine Nov. 29, 2021

In a meta-analysis performed by a team led by psychologist Bella DePaulo, 14 of 50 nonverbal characteristics were observed to be more frequently associated with lying, most especially dilated pupils and tenseness.

From Scientific American Feb. 9, 2021

Wallace and Twyford have a responsibility, too, to allow us to intuit some measure of feeling rekindled, to activate the tenseness, and at present this aspect feels underdeveloped.

From Washington Post Jun. 14, 2019

I felt only a tenseness on my right side.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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