worrywart

Example Sentences

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This hasn’t been a great year to be invested in stocks if you’re a worrywart.

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

In the financial crisis of 2008-09, the investment bank Goldman Sachs had a secret weapon: Its CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, was a lifelong worrywart with plenty of tricks for calming his own frazzled nerves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Q. Supervising a worrywart: I work at a litigation law firm.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2019

The aunt of the main character, Neil Klugman, is a meddling worrywart, and the upper-middle-class relatives of Neil’s girlfriend are satirized as shallow materialists.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2018

Adam has never met Mrs. Schein, so he doesn’t get that implying that Kim is a worrywart is fighting words.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman