: beset by problems : harassed
a harried waiter who forgets your order
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For most of her career, and certainly since her portrayal of the harried, unglamorous sketch-show head writer Liz Lemon in 30 Rock coincided with the rise of pop feminism in the late aughts, her every plot and utterance has been widely scrutinized.
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Judy Berman, Time, 1 May 2025
The staff is mutually supportive, in a harried way, but the work is relentless: There is too much, and then there’s one more thing and then there’s a mass shooting at a downtown festival and the doors blow open.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Mags and Angela feel an intense connection that Ash circles around as well, and the attraction leads the harried, often-at-odds married couple to explore their own relationship together and apart.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
Berlin writes about harried and divorced single women, many of them in working-class jobs, with uncanny grace.
—New York Times, 8 July 2024
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Judy Berman, Time, 1 May 2025
The staff is mutually supportive, in a harried way, but the work is relentless: There is too much, and then there’s one more thing and then there’s a mass shooting at a downtown festival and the doors blow open.
—James Poniewozik, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
Mags and Angela feel an intense connection that Ash circles around as well, and the attraction leads the harried, often-at-odds married couple to explore their own relationship together and apart.
—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
Berlin writes about harried and divorced single women, many of them in working-class jobs, with uncanny grace.
—New York Times, 8 July 2024
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“Harried.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/harried. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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