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be nervous



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Investors still have good reason to be nervous.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

The question you just posed is one that the district judge, Kate M. Menendez, seems to be nervous about having to hear.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2026

"There's nothing to be nervous about anymore, I've done it for a few too many years now."

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2026

"It's an honor playing my first Tour Championship and I don't think I was necessarily in a position to be nervous about anything," Lee said.

From Barron's • Nov. 20, 2025

For heaven’s sake, what was there to be nervous about?

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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