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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He said he had become concerned about the potential for a dying person to be coerced by "unscrupulous relatives, or 'trusted' medical or legal professionals" into ending their life prematurely.
From BBC
Mr. Lew, with his stout belly straining against the frog knots of his long changshan, listened with an amused smirk as Ba rattled off concerns about the store.
From Literature
“None of this has to be your concern,” I call over my shoulder.
From Literature
Treasury yields higher—based on concerns that higher energy prices could make it harder for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.
Türk welcomed the amnesty law but warned that "structural and systemic human rights concerns have persisted" in Venezuela despite Maduro's ousting.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
