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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My one concern about Spain is Rodri, really, and what level he is at.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
The company hasn’t done enough to dispel that concern.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
The failure the pope describes consists in an institution’s confidently drawing the boundaries of moral concern with its most authoritative tools, holding that line for centuries, and turning out to be catastrophically wrong.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
The chief concern is that the rout gripping tech stocks in June could deepen as investors are forced to sell what they own to make room for the newcomers.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
In any case, Duane’s concern about Magic’s suggestion was because of what the hill was, and not what it was called.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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