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worry

[wur-ee, wuhr-ee] / ˈwɜr i, ˈwʌr i /




Usage

What are other ways to say worry? Worry is an active state of agitated uneasiness and restless apprehension: He was distracted by worry over the stock market. 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.

Example Sentences

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Her review was commissioned after concerns about the treatment of growing numbers of children and young people with worries about their gender, particularly at the Tavistock Clinic in London.

From BBC

Beyond that are young people who, like their American counterparts, are also worried about their future in a sluggish economy and a fast-changing world.

From BBC

Rachel Mason says when she posts about TRT she finds "many women are so scared to start testosterone, they worry they will become manly, develop facial hair, lose themselves."

From BBC

Watching this team lose, or threaten to lose, big leads in games in recent seasons breeds a certain worry.

From BBC

Experts nevertheless welcomed the increasingly serious political debate on an issue that has long worried military planners.

From Barron's