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anxiety

[ang-zahy-i-tee] / æŋˈzaɪ ɪ ti /


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"This could reshape how scientists think about anxiety and PTSD."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

An incident in Leon County, in the Florida Panhandle, illustrates the widespread anxiety about law enforcement at the polls.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

Rountree’s interdisciplinary “sessions” run from the musically sophisticated and accomplished to ad hoc and participatory funkiness, less designed to change minds than to relieve democracy anxiety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Home-security cameras are meant to reduce the anxiety we feel from the unknown: Who’s at the door?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Now the bewildered rodent could do nothing but press his nose against the glass and knock with his tiny, monkeylike paws as his bushy tail flicked to and fro with anxiety.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

It’s by no means the main thread, but it absolutely underpins Townshend’s personal anxieties.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

Jerod Weiman, Grinnell’s chair of computer science, told MarketWatch he is sympathetic about the career anxieties that students in his department are currently feeling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

A few weeks ago, shares of Schwab and other financial-services firms tumbled after Muse’s launch triggered anxieties that agents might someday dispense advice or be deployed to sort customer’s cash, funneling dollars into higher-yielding accounts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Tyree, a professor of cinema at Virginia Commonwealth University and the editor in chief of Film Quarterly, "popular movies always are reflecting these social anxieties of the day."

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Instead, Herbert moved even closer to her home in Dothan, which elevated her anxieties.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson


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