concern
Usage
What are other ways to say concern?
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. Worry is an active state of agitated uneasiness and restless apprehension: He was distracted by worry over the stock market.Example Sentences
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Almost one million of these over-65s are "often lonely", according to Age Concern.
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2026
Concern about health misinformation has grown, with vaccination rates falling and extreme diets increasing in popularity.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
Concern now rests upon multiple dubious candlesticks between March 16 and April 7, including three bearish engulfing candles and several dojis.
From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026
Concern began brewing among Democrats before the allegations were published.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
In Florida the birds were strictly protected as a Species of Special Concern, so their presence on the Mother Paula’s site would have created serious legal problems—and a public-relations disaster—if it had become widely known.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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