anxious
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Anxious investors worry that underwriting standards may have loosened at private-credit firms as it rapidly grew to become a $2 trillion industry.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026
“This is what we’ve all been hoping for,” said Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and author of “The Anxious Generation.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026
Haidt argued in his bestselling 2024 book "The Anxious Generation" that too much time looking at screens -- particularly social media -- was rewiring children's brains and "causing an epidemic of mental illness".
From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026
Jonathan Haidt had a moment last year with his book “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
Anxious is the only word Ma ever says about Pop.
From "Towers Falling" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Vocabulary lists containing anxious
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"Seventh Grade" by Gary Soto
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