anxiety
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“It’s not immediately clear, for example, why someone with depression or anxiety necessarily has higher living costs.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Blanca Ortiz has cycled through bouts of sadness, anxiety and anger ever since her husband was detained by federal immigration agents five months ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
“My social media routine has slowly changed over the last year or so, as I’ve felt more anxiety around it,” Sydney Graham, a sewing-pattern designer, told me over email.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2026
Another source I spoke to was "eaten alive by anxiety" over the investigation and baffled that Germany, a close ally of Ukraine, was even pursuing prosecution.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
On his way to his meeting with Greenblatt, Burry was wracked with the anxiety that always plagued him before face-to-face encounters with people.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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A slower rate of rate hikes will ease anxieties in the credit markets, which have gotten angsty recently with the sharp rise in yields, Holzenthaler says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
It describes several overlapping anxieties about modern restaurant food, but its prehistory belongs, at least partly, to the ghost kitchen.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Over the summer, those anxieties deepened after Netflix said it would publish viewership data less frequently.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
We’re awash in apocalyptic anxieties about rogue technology.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
Whenever the authorities separated us, I would be slightly relieved, but then the worry over how he was doing would only add to my anxieties.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
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