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worry

[wur-ee, wuhr-ee] / ˈwɜr i, ˈwʌr i /




Usage

What are other ways to say worry? Worry is an active state of agitated uneasiness and restless apprehension: He was distracted by worry over the stock market. Concern implies an anxious sense of interest in something: concern over a friend's misfortune. Care suggests a heaviness of spirit caused by dread, or by the constant pressure of burdensome demands: Poverty weighs a person down with care.

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That's a worry that Fontes shares, saying it could affect both parties.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Opposition to AI datacenters has been a growing point of worry for many, but not all voters.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

Just because they haven’t succeeded, and they’re deplorably bad at it, does that mean we shouldn’t worry, or doesn’t it matter how bad you are at it.

From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026

I do worry for Sage because it seems a lot of Palace fans are uncertain about him and feel his team are too easy to get at.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

“The money will help feed the three of you. It will buy milk or a piece of salmon if there’s any to be had in Ballilee. You won’t have to worry about me.”

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

The attack on Binance came as many observers express worries that the ever-expanding capabilities of artificial intelligence models could compromise cryptography and IT security protocols.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

She explained that parents of children with allergies have all the usual worries but "first and foremost is your allergy".

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Mr. Tullett calls the older ability to follow one’s sense of smell “nose-wise knowledge,” while Mr. Berge worries about today’s “sensory illiteracy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

I’m caught between his needs, my own well-being and my worries about what’s going on there.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

As a graduate student from a poor family, he also had money worries.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

After losing her finance job in December, Marie Caron, 61, is worried for the first time about how she will get by in old age.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Analysts in the past have worried that Apple was falling behind on AI adoption.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 1, 2026

You wake up worried about the world—what fresh horrors have transpired overnight?

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

Reuniting with Ranganathan on the comedian's BBC Radio 2 show on Saturday morning, Croft said they had been worried about being seen together in public before the final.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

They might just be worried about the store.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Democratic Unionist Party MLA Cheryl Brownlee said the rise in attacks on halls was worrying and unacceptable.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

It’s only human for a parent to want to help one child when he or she loses a job while also worrying about being unfair to a sibling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

Richard Rubin and David Luhnow examine how Washington stopped worrying about debt—and what it could cost us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Bethan Laughlin, a senior policy specialist for the Zoological Society of London who observed the COP17 negotiations firsthand, said the trend was worrying.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026

No more worrying about leopards creeping up on her in the forest.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer


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