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Recent Examples of anxiously
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.
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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
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
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anxiously
Adverb
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Matthiessen’s time with the C.I.A. sits uneasily within his biography.—
Maggie Doherty,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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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
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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Central bank independence from political interference when setting rates is critically important.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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And on top of all else, America’s air traffic control systems are critically outdated.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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