worrywart

Example Sentences

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So I think there’ll be this raised consciousness, but there will still be this view that risk managers are cautious worrywarts.

From Scientific American

All these discovered “no evidence” of malfeasance, so Republicans brought in — really — Cyber Ninjas, a company owned by a stop-the-steal worrywart.

From Washington Post

In perhaps the least devastating insult of the year so far, Paul dismissed Fauci last week as “a government worrywart.”

From Los Angeles Times

He imagines asking those worrywarts about new technologies that would allow kids to instead interact with one another by sharing messages, photographs and videos.

From Scientific American

“He was like, ‘The one good thing is, you’re already hydrated,’” Josh Carlin, an offensive lineman from Chatsworth Sierra Canyon High, recalled of his lighthearted exchange with the Bruins coach known as a water worrywart.

From Los Angeles Times