worrywart
Example Sentences
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In the financial crisis of 2008-09, the investment bank Goldman Sachs had a secret weapon: Its CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, was a lifelong worrywart with plenty of tricks for calming his own frazzled nerves.
“We are realists, but we are not worrywarts either,” he said.
From MarketWatch
So I think there’ll be this raised consciousness, but there will still be this view that risk managers are cautious worrywarts.
From Scientific American
This medium, which humanity progressed without for 10 millennia, suddenly seemed to some worrywarts as vital as oxygen and proteins, and as perishable as the planet.
From Washington Post
“I’m sorry I was such a worrywart,” she said one day as I was doing her baking.
From Literature
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