stressed out
Example Sentences
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"TCM bars" have popped up in several cities across China, epitomising what the country's stressed-out, time-poor youth refer to as "punk wellness", or "wrecking yourself while saving yourself".
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
Masha Maltsava, a Los Angeles-based photographer, says she spent much of her young adulthood stressed-out and sleep-deprived.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025
What she views as playful antics look like stressed-out apes bouncing off their steel mesh walls.
From Salon • Aug. 18, 2024
One of p53’s roles is to orchestrate cellular senescence, telling stressed-out, unruly cells to stop dividing before they cause problems.
From Science Magazine • May 16, 2024
“It will, I guess. She’s been so stressed-out lately.”
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
