fretted
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"Damon's Odysseus is stubborn, overconfident and sacrilegious, but doesn't bear that much resemblance to the conniving, hypocritical egotist of lore who fretted over his wife's fidelity," she noted.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
“I wasn’t expecting this—all the hustle and bustle,” he fretted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
The delicate tapestry will be transported from its usual home in northern France, but the precise arrangements are being kept secret as heritage experts and artists have fretted that it could be damaged in transit.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
“The ballroom is literally an imposition between two branches of our government,” the architect David Scott Parker, who’s on the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, fretted to the Times.
From Slate ● May 18, 2026
The front of thin veneers was cut out to make a pretty pattern and there was old-rose silk behind this fretted wood design.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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