excitableness

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Noun
  • Animal behavioralists from the Royal Veterinary College used an industry standard review called the Canine Behavioral Assessment and Research Questionnaire (C-BARQ), to collect data on behavioral traits such as aggression, excitability, and trainability.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Whereas fear scores stayed fairly stable across years, and attention/excitability was slightly higher for dogs enrolled in 2022.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To attempt to quell nervousness, the BBC has been quietly rolling out its new protocols.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 8 May 2026
  • That, combined with his understandable nervousness, caused him to short-arm his first fastball, which sailed at Cey’s head, sending him sprawling into the dirt.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • While there have been no reports of illness, authorities urge people to contact a health care provider for any concerns.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
  • Andrew Nixon, a spokesman for the HHS, which oversees the FDA, said the studies were pulled over concerns about their conclusions.
    Padmanabhan Ananthan, USA Today, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • But the following year, as the pandemic wore on and crime rates ticked up, the politics of criminal justice in the city shifted toward law-and-order anxiety, even as new waves of COVID infection struck the jails.
    Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
  • War rumbles on Putin, who has ruled Russia as president or prime minister since the last day of 1999, faces a wave of anxiety in Moscow about the war in Ukraine, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people, left swathes of Ukraine in ruins, and drained Russia’s $3 trillion economy.
    Reuters, NBC news, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • At the macro scale of society, loss of control seems like a legitimate reason for worry.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 7 May 2026
  • Their worry is that investors are treating this economic moment — physical supply disruptions, geopolitical fracturing, tariff whiplash — like the liquidity crises of the past, which were solvable with government cash.
    Rachel Keidan, semafor.com, 7 May 2026
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“Excitableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excitableness. Accessed 13 May. 2026.

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