nerves
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“I think the earnings season is probably also from a fundamental sense, it’s a sort of let’s calm down the nerves a little bit,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Chwalinska, 25, felt a few nerves as she closed in on her first WTA 1,000 title, but took her third championship point when Kartal hammered a forehand long.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The gathering came during a week when investor nerves over rising borrowing costs and AI labs’ profitability hit semiconductor stocks and the bonds of AI infrastructure providers such as CoreWeave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
It’s audition day at New Jersey’s Brook Arts Center, and everyone is a bundle of nerves.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
As I paced through the hospital, I couldn’t find enough things to count to help me calm my nerves.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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