concern
Usage
What are other ways to say concern?
Concern implies an anxious sense of interest in something: concern over a friend's misfortune. Care suggests a heaviness of spirit caused by dread, or by the constant pressure of burdensome demands: Poverty weighs a person down with care. Worry is an active state of agitated uneasiness and restless apprehension: He was distracted by worry over the stock market.Example Sentences
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Doug Ostrover and Marc Lipschultz had borrowed against their stakes in Blue Owl, raising concern on Wall Street that the company’s falling stock price could open them up to margin calls and add downward pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
On a larger scale, AI data centers are at the forefront of local protests and environmental concern, with the megaprojects polluting acres of once peaceful land, using up precious resources and driving up electricity prices.
From Salon • Apr. 17, 2026
The force added that it recognised the incident may concern local residents and the wider public, but it did not believe there to be any increased public safety risk.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
The concern is companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are building AI models that might one day replace software capabilities.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
And he gets to help with money—our number one concern these days.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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