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As investors fret about gasoline, diesel prices have been rising and are threatening to cause even more economic destruction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

As investors fret about gasoline prices, the cost of an under-the-radar fuel is rising again, threatening to cause even more economic damage.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

The company plans to spend roughly $135 billion on its data-center buildout this year, doubling down on its expansion even as investors fret over Meta’s ability to generate returns on the massive investment.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

They fret about what all this looks like.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026

“Make food taste good. Don’t you fret ’bout that.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

"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

Adam Hussein, a 35-year-old representative for Mongbwalu's traditional faith healers, fretted about Ebola denial and called on everyone to take precautions.

From Barron's ● May 24, 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

We’d fretted about finding boys to be our official escorts, but Mamá had a lot of comadres and they had a lot of sons from which to choose.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

With sectional strife threatening Civil War, the artist was surely fretting over the tension between freedom and slavery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Spike Lee’s masterpiece was met with hand-wringing when it arrived in theaters 37 summers ago, with white critics fretting how “urban audiences” would react to its shocking ending of brutality and angry protest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

After fretting and weighing the pros and cons, I eventually caved and decided to start mine young.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026

With the two countries seemingly making little progress on peace talks, investors are fretting that shipping through the Strait of Hormuz could remain disrupted.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

During that time Jefferson was too busy to indulge in retrospective fretting over the loss of a friend.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis