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Recent Examples of distraught Thirty minutes later, the Sun reported, medics still had not tended to a distraught woman half-buried by the shattered stands, groaning, with both legs apparently broken. Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 21 Jan. 2025 Viel found a distraught Pasadena woman who saw flames approaching a coop that housed pet chickens and ducks behind her home on Altadena Drive. Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025 That September day, Rickey was distraught about the A’s leaving Oakland, temporarily to West Sacramento next season and then perhaps on to Las Vegas in 2028 or beyond. Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 27 Dec. 2024 There’s also a troubling recurrent theme of angry, violent, and/or distraught mothers, who we are asked to watch suffer or inflict suffering on others time and time again. Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for distraught 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for distraught
Adjective
  • Gilbert likely gained some valuable experience dealing with politically agitated people by once serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild and by briefly running for Congress in 2015.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2025
  • About an hour into the conversation, the founder seemed agitated.
    Marc Stad, TIME, 16 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • How worried should the team be about his availability for the playoffs?
    AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post, 6 Feb. 2025
  • But in the early days of the second Donald Trump presidency, LGBTQ+ communities across the U.S. are more worried about their digital privacy than ever before.
    Samantha Riedel, Them, 5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Still, federal aviation officials assured frightened flyers that American airspace is among the safest places in the world to be on a plane.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Those who have birthright citizenship, those brought here as children and those who have legally applied for asylum are frightened.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • His formal daring was inextricably linked to the emotional turbulence in his life: The frantic innovation of his films is a projection of a mind and a heart at unrest.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
  • However, a frantic phone call from a panicking mother led to an unexpected breach of this secrecy.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • For the past month, California resident Adriana, who asked to be identified by only her first name for privacy reasons, has been delivering food to families too scared to leave their homes.
    Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Ever since Donald Trump won the presidential election last November, kids around the country have been scared about what his promise of mass deportations might mean for them and their classmates.
    Vox Staff, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Will Lyles prove his dominance, or can Jacobs pull off another upset?
    Kilty Cleary, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Lucas Boze had 22 points in the Gold Coast League upset for Crossroads.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2025

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“Distraught.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/distraught. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025.

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