worked up
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Linderman was 19 when she finally worked up the courage to try her hand at stand-up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
In a statement last month, he said the singer had "worked up until the day she died" on multiple projects, and envisioned a legacy that continued long beyond her death.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Which is why I have trouble getting particularly worked up about the expensive-sauce aisle.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
You, very understandably, are worked up about how much food is ordered and goes untouched.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
It was good for the kids to have some awareness of such prejudices, but to see Zeitoun disappointed, to get him so worked up after a long day—it wasn’t worth it.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
By the same token, a lot of people who are super worked-up about "cancel culture" are also isolated and anxious about being left behind in a changing world.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2022
One shows McKeller’s recognizably African American head in meager outline transformed on the same sheet of paper into a more worked-up head of Apollo, based on a plaster cast of the Apollo Belvedere.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 5, 2020
It’s also very effective at lulling a worked-up child into relaxation, especially at bedtime.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2019
Standing between an agitated police officer and a worked-up protester who were nearing blows near a gas station in the Sherman Park neighborhood, Hamilton said he stepped in to urge calm.
From Reuters ● Aug. 18, 2016
You get 'em worked-up like, and then I'll show you how to do the trick.
From The Boy Scouts on Sturgeon Island or Marooned Among the Game-fish Poachers by Herbert Carter
