insecure
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Yet once he was down to 170 pounds, he still felt insecure.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026
It points to three main factors driving a rise: rising living costs, debt and insecure work.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
She may even be feeling insecure in the relationship.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026
It is designed to weed out the insecure and trigger-happy, the reckless hotheads with something to prove.
From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026
Prose becomes stuffy when an insecure writer hammers the reader over the head with redundant indicators of a connection, as if unsure that one would be enough.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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