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Recent Examples of anxiously
Most recently, airlines were directed to reduce their operations by 10% at 40 airports for two days to reduce air traffic, leaving many passengers frantically searching for alternatives to their travel plans or anxiously awaiting cancellation notifications.
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Essence, 10 Nov. 2025
The magical journey begins at nightfall at the Durango Depot, where travelers anxiously wait for the powerful steam engine to chug around the corner.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2025
The lawyer asked for six years in prison, perhaps hoping for a miracle in Miami federal court, as Carpman’s family members and friends anxiously awaited the judgment.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Their first true punch landed Friday, in the latter stages of the first quarter, put Minnesota’s defense on its heels, and the Wolves spent the rest of the evening in the corner, anxiously awaiting the bell.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2025
Someone who anxiously lies awake at night may need stress-management strategies.
—Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
While Jets fans anxiously await those results, notable sports medicine physician and Injury Expertz CEO Jesse Morse believes the team could be looking at the prospect of being without their star wideout for a handful of games.
—Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Many attendees waited anxiously beforehand, anticipating bad news about the garden’s future.
—Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
Fanning, for whom this film is certainly a showcase, plays Polly, who’s revealed to be a physical and emotional mess in the opening scenes, in which she’s shown anxiously puttering around her large, unkempt house, chain-smoking and trying on dresses for an upcoming important interview.
—Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Essence, 10 Nov. 2025
The magical journey begins at nightfall at the Durango Depot, where travelers anxiously wait for the powerful steam engine to chug around the corner.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 Nov. 2025
The lawyer asked for six years in prison, perhaps hoping for a miracle in Miami federal court, as Carpman’s family members and friends anxiously awaited the judgment.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2025
Their first true punch landed Friday, in the latter stages of the first quarter, put Minnesota’s defense on its heels, and the Wolves spent the rest of the evening in the corner, anxiously awaiting the bell.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 25 Oct. 2025
Someone who anxiously lies awake at night may need stress-management strategies.
—Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
While Jets fans anxiously await those results, notable sports medicine physician and Injury Expertz CEO Jesse Morse believes the team could be looking at the prospect of being without their star wideout for a handful of games.
—Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Many attendees waited anxiously beforehand, anticipating bad news about the garden’s future.
—Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
Fanning, for whom this film is certainly a showcase, plays Polly, who’s revealed to be a physical and emotional mess in the opening scenes, in which she’s shown anxiously puttering around her large, unkempt house, chain-smoking and trying on dresses for an upcoming important interview.
—Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 10 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anxiously
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Like his real-life friend and character Molly, Pacilio also uneasily embarked on his second career at age 55, launching into being an author at a time when the publishing world had undergone many changes.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Nov. 2025
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Matthiessen’s time with the C.I.A. sits uneasily within his biography.—
Maggie Doherty,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Planes getting uncomfortably close in the air and on the ground.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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This is a movie designed to repulse as much attract, and one in which its sheer messiness, its chaos-Muppet energy and its mania gets you uncomfortably close to its unraveling main character’s mindset.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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These ghosts, which take the form of their dead friends, are mostly just goofy, with the shoddy special effects and glowy auras giving the whole thing a distinctly Haunted Mansion vibe; critically, the threat never feels real, which undermines any tension.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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Using strategies to assess each paper for bias, the team rated their confidence in each one as high, moderate, low or critically low.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Anxiously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anxiously. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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