fretted

Example Sentences

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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

Treasury yields took a step back as investors fretted about war-driven inflation while worrying about an economic slowdown.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 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

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

Insurgent capitalism frightened the government of North Korea, which fretted publicly about a slippery slope to regime change and catastrophe.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden