concern
Usage
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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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The technology is still so nascent that an existential threat looks like a distant concern, some say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“The first of those risks is the key,” they say of mounting concern about an AI slowdown.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Executives at OpenAI, SpaceX and Microsoft also echoed the concern and called for some sort of pause.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Now into the final year of his contract, which United have the option to extend to the summer of 2028, a continued over-reliance on Fernandes is a concern.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Tiamat wheeled overhead, sending occasional messages of concern.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
In the two months before Phillips took the children again, social workers also ignored concerns raised by their older step-siblings.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Software companies, whose shares were buffeted this year by concerns that new AI tools would render them obsolete, were among the best performers in the S&P 500.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have pulled their children from their new school in the UK over security concerns, the Daily Mail reports.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Altman said he agreed with Amodei, announcing the company would delay its initial public offering until 2027 over safety concerns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Perhaps because of their concerns about Yardley, Elizebeth and William made the mistake of trusting Fabyan.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Police at the time were "seriously concerned that he might take the children away again", the report said -- fears that were not passed on to the Ministry for Children.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
He added he was more concerned about the dancing than the singing during his performance.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
In late August, Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh used his remarks at the Jackson Hole economic symposium to signal that he was concerned about inflation trends.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
An Anthropic spokesman said people at all levels in the company are concerned about AI safety and that many employees had signed the pacing-the-frontier open letter in July.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
“They were also concerned to hear that your mother has prevented me from seeing my daughter.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
French drone company Harmattan AI separately signed a letter of intent with Iraq's defence ministry concerning autonomous air-defence systems.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
Several consecutive months of accelerating inflation would be much more concerning.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
The most concerning product that CR tested in terms of glycidyl esters was Takis Fuego tortilla chips.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
Instead of token limits, Carvana shares what it calls “expectations” concerning each employee’s monthly AI usage level, says Alex Devkar, the used-car retailer’s senior vice president of engineering and product analytics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Meanwhile, talks continued between Bobby’s lawyers, Paul Marshall and Andrew Davis, and the Icelandic Chess Federation concerning the matter of the gate receipts.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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