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Recent Examples of anxiously
Year after year, Disneyland fans anxiously awaited an announcement that never came.
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Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
There’s no worse feeling than anxiously waiting to be reunited with your luggage.
—Liz Provencher, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026
Hollywood is coming off a disappointing box-office year and now anxiously awaits the fate of one of its most storied studios, Warner Bros.
—Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
Dubner anxiously laughed for what felt like a full minute after that bombshell of a Q.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
Six months into Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement, fans everywhere are anxiously hoping to learn details about the upcoming superstar wedding.
—Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
Residents have anxiously waited for eleven months to return home.
—Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Money, 16 Dec. 2025
Fong and Smith’s team works to thaw the frozen equipment with warm water as Smith waits anxiously.
—Abigail Wise, Outside, 11 Dec. 2025
Say goodbye to abrupt departures, that awkward am-I-staying-or-going dance, and hovering anxiously (and conspicuously) near the door.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 8 Dec. 2025
Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 13 Jan. 2026
There’s no worse feeling than anxiously waiting to be reunited with your luggage.
—Liz Provencher, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026
Hollywood is coming off a disappointing box-office year and now anxiously awaits the fate of one of its most storied studios, Warner Bros.
—Jake Coyle, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
Dubner anxiously laughed for what felt like a full minute after that bombshell of a Q.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
Six months into Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement, fans everywhere are anxiously hoping to learn details about the upcoming superstar wedding.
—Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
Residents have anxiously waited for eleven months to return home.
—Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Money, 16 Dec. 2025
Fong and Smith’s team works to thaw the frozen equipment with warm water as Smith waits anxiously.
—Abigail Wise, Outside, 11 Dec. 2025
Say goodbye to abrupt departures, that awkward am-I-staying-or-going dance, and hovering anxiously (and conspicuously) near the door.
—Angela Haupt, Time, 8 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anxiously
Adverb
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This show of sweetness fighting back against a sense of hopelessness builds an apprehensively brighter perspective than earlier work.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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Both sit uneasily in a politics that treats freedom as self-executing.—
Philip Martin,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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John of John, Stuart’s third novel, follows a closeted young art student returning to his childhood home in Scotland’s Hebrides islands, where his unwell grandmother and conservative lay preacher father live uneasily under the same roof.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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Aside from technical glitches, there was uncomfortably dead air and forced improv.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
8 Jan. 2026
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What once read as moral conviction can, from another angle, start to look uncomfortably like a savior complex.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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More than a century of overfishing, industrialization, and hatchery mismanagement has brought several populations of salmon and their close relative the steelhead to critically low levels in the Pacific Northwest.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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At the same time, retirement savings remain critically important, especially with the questions surrounding the sustainability of Social Security benefits.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Anxiously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anxiously. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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