as in anxiously
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Recent Examples of apprehensively
This show of sweetness fighting back against a sense of hopelessness builds an apprehensively brighter perspective than earlier work.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for apprehensively
Adverb
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While officials are anxiously hoping that the tax revenues will keep coming in, Lamont and lawmakers have not agreed on how to cut taxes.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2026
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Just days after the first pip of nesting season for Big Bear bald eagle couple Jackie and Shadow, their first eaglet has hatched, and their second egg has a pip as Southern California fans of the duo anxiously await their newest family members.—
Dean Fioresi,
CBS News,
4 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Businesses operate in an environment where formal and informal systems coexist uneasily.—
Oscar de la Rosa,
Boston Herald,
3 Apr. 2026
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An uneasy balance The concentration of power around one figure sits uneasily with one of the founding impulses of the 1979 revolution that ushered in the Islamic Republic.—
Roxane Razavi,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Finding the perpetrators would take months and raise questions that hit uncomfortably close to home—not only the Kirkeby’s home, but also mine.—
Jennifer Cannon,
Vanity Fair,
7 Apr. 2026
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Victor Glover, the pilot, reported that the spacecraft was uncomfortably cold, and donned a knit cap.—
David W. Brown,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Apprehensively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apprehensively. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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