nervous tension
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The nervous tension in the stadium quickly morphed into unbridled frustration, as the Phillies lineup was unable to do anything against Snell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025
And then, with just 13 minutes left, one of those moments of calamity that have characterised Chelsea far too often punctured the atmosphere of elation and transformed it into nervous tension.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
I’ve always liked Plath’s nervous tension; she’s essentially always writing about anxiety.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022
It doesn’t have much to say, but it says it with style and a mood of jangly, sustained nervous tension.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2021
He then spent three weeks in bed, made miserable by constant aching in limbs, insomnia, nervous tension, and feelings of acute anxiety.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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