as in anxiously
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Adverb
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Most recently, airlines were directed to reduce their operations by 10% at 40 airports for two days to reduce air traffic, leaving many passengers frantically searching for alternatives to their travel plans or anxiously awaiting cancellation notifications.—
Essence,
Essence,
10 Nov. 2025 -
The magical journey begins at nightfall at the Durango Depot, where travelers anxiously wait for the powerful steam engine to chug around the corner.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Like his real-life friend and character Molly, Pacilio also uneasily embarked on his second career at age 55, launching into being an author at a time when the publishing world had undergone many changes.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Nov. 2025
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Matthiessen’s time with the C.I.A. sits uneasily within his biography.—
Maggie Doherty,
New Yorker,
13 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
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“Apprehensively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/apprehensively. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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