fretted
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"Damon's Odysseus is stubborn, overconfident and sacrilegious, but doesn't bear that much resemblance to the conniving, hypocritical egotist of lore who fretted over his wife's fidelity," she noted.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
“I wasn’t expecting this—all the hustle and bustle,” he fretted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Software stocks were battered earlier in the year as investors fretted that AI would take market share from software-as-a-service providers.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
“The ballroom is literally an imposition between two branches of our government,” the architect David Scott Parker, who’s on the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, fretted to the Times.
From Slate ● May 18, 2026
Insurgent capitalism frightened the government of North Korea, which fretted publicly about a slippery slope to regime change and catastrophe.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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