fretted
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“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
For years, he had fretted over whether she would ever be ready.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Palantir also got a shout-out from Trump on Friday, helping it to claw back some losses during a session in which investors fretted about Anthropic’s new AI model.
From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026
And many, in a district in which more than 86% of students are low-income, fretted about feeding their kids.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
After everything he’d built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life: one disappointing son and two suitcases.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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