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Recent Examples of anxiously
Someone who anxiously lies awake at night may need stress-management strategies.
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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
Three young women sit anxiously, one having dragged friends from Spain and Dublin in hopes of finding boyfriends.
—Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
One of Vasquez’s sisters, Areli Vasquez Nunez, anxiously tapped her foot throughout the two-week trial.
—Pj Green
october 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
Families of the trapped -- who are said to be mostly teenage boys -- waited anxiously for news as rescue teams combed through twisted debris and slabs of concrete to find 38 students and workers who were still missing.
—Britt Clennett, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025
John wasn't allowed in the delivery room and waited anxiously to hear that everything had gone smoothly.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
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
Three young women sit anxiously, one having dragged friends from Spain and Dublin in hopes of finding boyfriends.
—Rebecca Rosman, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
One of Vasquez’s sisters, Areli Vasquez Nunez, anxiously tapped her foot throughout the two-week trial.
—Pj Green
october 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Oct. 2025
Families of the trapped -- who are said to be mostly teenage boys -- waited anxiously for news as rescue teams combed through twisted debris and slabs of concrete to find 38 students and workers who were still missing.
—Britt Clennett, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025
John wasn't allowed in the delivery room and waited anxiously to hear that everything had gone smoothly.
—Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anxiously
Adverb
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The true death knell, however, is the fact that the mix of dreary and dreamlike — the very juxtaposition that gives Kiss of the Spider Woman its aenima and its sting — sit too uneasily next to each other, as if both halves were stuck in a separate conversation instead of talking to each other.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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For 50 years, that status quo held uneasily, as subsequent peace efforts failed.—
Mireille Rebeiz,
The Conversation,
9 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Ryan Murphy’s brought Ed Gein back as a uncomfortably sexy, chainsaw wielding killer, Aileen Wuornos’ crimes are being reconsidered in a doc featuring a pre-execution interview, and over on Peacock, John Wayne Gacy is coming to life.—
Elisabeth Garber-Paul,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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The August numbers were already uncomfortably high for the Fed, which is chasing a 2 percent target, and an even higher reading, even if the increase is small, would push them toward greater caution on cutting interest rates further.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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No development came to pass, but the company critically won three licenses for exploration in the Jameson basin.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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An 11-year-old boy was critically injured, while an 8-year-old girl sustained minor injuries.—
Cathy Kozlowicz,
jsonline.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Anxiously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anxiously. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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