worry
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With Halloween coming up, there’s no need to worry that you won’t get any pumpkin-shaped chocolate and peanut butter candy in your trick-or-treat basket.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Yet some European officials are now beginning to worry that the buildup is shifting the balance of power on the continent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
But the growth rate has caught the attention of some investment professionals who worry the attractive yields are causing some to overlook, or otherwise miss, the risks.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
People also worry that companies are using their videos and photos to build AI features without consent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Was the lesson that she shouldn’t worry about poetry reading in front of people because you never know when you might drive into the forest?
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
UBS worries management could be stretched by building and ramping up across two countries—Cambodia and Australia—at the same time, and that consensus expectations are too high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Adikalie mainly subcontracts to young people across Southwark, helping them to gain work experience, and while he hopes to keep offering these opportunities, he worries poor mobile service could hold the company back.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Simmering worries that the technology could wipe out civilization and launch cyberattacks reached a boil at the office and around the dinner table—and prompted AI leaders to call for more regulation of the technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The construction site will be wrapped with underwater silt curtains but Leidich worries the marine lakes will be contaminated by sediment plumes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
My worries disappear for the moment as Mother and I embrace and I smell the rose petals she uses to scent our dresses.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
“The better we do on GPT-X, the more worried genre fiction authors will become about us substituting for them on Amazon,” Jack Clark, OpenAI’s former policy director, said in an internal warning in 2020.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
One of my kids worried aloud that the ship might be “stuck” in the ocean.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Hanna and her siblings desperately wanted her back - but they were also worried.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
For the passionate crowd of immersive enthusiasts who may want to experience “The Pineapple” and are worried I just spoiled the show, I call nonsense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Someone here? Of course not, I was talking to myself. But hello to you too. Glad to see you were as worried for me as I was for you.”
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
OpenAI has introduced a framework for reporting on worrying behaviors by its AI models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Among other worrying instances, OpenAI said one of its models during training added instructions to those summaries to hide mistakes or “misaligned behavior” from the user.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Some AI researchers say there are worrying signs of systems developing in their capabilities and power too quickly.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
She hired her house manager to allow her room for joy and to be fully present with her 6-year-old daughter instead of worrying about whether they were running low on laundry detergent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 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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