as in anxiously
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Adverb
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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
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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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
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“Apprehensively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apprehensively. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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