franticness

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Noun
  • Eager, but unsupported Gen Z approaches AI with both enthusiasm and anxiousness.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • That driving tension and anxiety are largely thanks to the team of artisans, which included composer Volker Bertelmann, editor Kirk Baxter and sound designer Paul Ottosson, who worked closely behind the scenes on their respective crafts to bring it together.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
  • That sense of anxiety is present throughout the book, most vividly in a wide shot of a group of cheerleaders rehearsing in a gym.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Unlike past contests, this vote has unfolded against a backdrop of deep sociopolitical unease and visible youth engagement.
    Amindeh Blaise Atabong, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This shift, unprecedented in modern Japanese history, has prompted unease among nationalist groups and some conservative politicians.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Organizers felt some sense of trepidation before the first entertainment zone event, acknowledged Sacramento Midtown Association Executive Director Emily Baime Michaels.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Along with Michael Cusack, the former YouTube trailblazers have created a show that is not only downright hysterical but also serves as a bold example for an industry drowning in unprecedented trepidation.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But now, a contrite Sasha is confronted with Esther’s restlessness.
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The restlessness in seniors could be due to changes in their sleep cycles, hearing loss or anxiety.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Or, perhaps, there is the uneasiness surrounding fiction itself, how inert marks can so fully imitate life, like the blush on a body’s cheek, until there is uncertainty around what is real and what is fake, what is alive and what is dead.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Convincingly portraying a woman who regains her dignity in her quest to follow in her father’s footsteps, Hart’s performance of inscrutable sacrifice balances a regal confidence with the uneasiness of someone in perpetual survival mode.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Shanahan, the head coach in Washington from 2010 to 2013, once grilled Paulsen on offensive tackle protections out of worry the tight end might have to play emergency tackle in a preseason game.
    Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Those worries resulted in a European bank stock selloff last week, although the sector quickly rebounded.
    Tasmin Lockwood, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In the canonical metaphorical example, a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil, and the cascading sequence of atmospheric perturbations leads to a tornado in Texas.
    Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
  • By comparing the forward and backward series of operations, the new algorithm can see the effects of this perturbation throughout the molecule and so model the molecule as a whole.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Franticness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/franticness. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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