concern
Usage
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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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Higher rates often make it more expensive for governments to raise money from bond sales, a pressing concern as debt and deficit levels remain high in several European countries.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Some emergency-response experts express concern that people will waste precious minutes grabbing an anti-choking device when they should be doing back blows, the Heimlich maneuver—officially known as abdominal thrusts—or CPR.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Fellow co-chair David Chatillon said the relaxed alcohol content would concern just a small number of growers.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Marshall offered a response around midday Tuesday, saying he’s “going to fight to keep Bombardier’s over 1,200 Kansas jobs” and adding that he’s “already taken that concern inside the Oval Office.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Because if I’m perfectly honest, which is sometimes difficult to be, I have to admit that the posters in the station concern me.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
City officials on Tuesday “red-tagged” seven of those homes in the Capistrano Bay District community, deeming them unsafe for residents, and two others were “yellow-tagged,” signifying some safety concerns, according to Dana Point officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Coxon’s concerns reflect a wider debate on whether AI development should be slowed and brought under regulatory oversight—as nuclear power was in the 1950s—or allowed to grow unfettered—as the Internet was.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
A report in The Times newspaper quoted the general's concerns about the "Harry-Meghan nonsense", suggesting this was the background to the decision.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Those three events can increase costs in retirement or raise concerns about retirement security.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
Our family time was when big worries and urgent concerns got abruptly and mercilessly shrunk to nothing so that the small could rightly take over.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Notably, Hauser said that after recent central bank meetings in the U.S., he has grown more concerned about the inflation outlook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Long Beach Fire Department officials concerned about structural damage evacuated about 20 homes on the Long Beach Peninsula.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The head of the world's main fact-checking network said she was "deeply concerned" by Meta's decision.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The K2-18b claim relied on possible atmospheric signatures detected from across interstellar distances, whereas the Martian case concerned a rock that could be studied directly and in much greater detail.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026
None of them were very concerned as Roz approached.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
She described the figures as "incredibly concerning", with the true impact of artificial intelligence on the workplace yet to be quantified.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
More concerning, additional positioning may still need to unwind, potentially pushing the sector even lower.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 7, 2026
Alongside rapidly multiplying cancer cells are immune cells, newly formed blood vessels and a particularly concerning group of cancer cells that remain unusually quiet.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
“I just had him, and now it’s concerning if he’s going to be able to grow up here,” Orduno said, or “if I’m going to have to relocate.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
What is sure, predictable, inevitable—the one certain thing you know concerning your future, and mine?”
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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