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Recent Examples of franticness
Christopher Fahmie is convincingly caddish as Beau, but like most of his castmates could dial up the franticness a bit more.
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Matthew J. Palm, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2026
Matthew J. Palm, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for franticness
Noun
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There is also a lot of anxiousness going on in my mind.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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That polling shows that, look, voters have a bit of wince or anxiousness about older candidates.—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
10 Dec. 2025
Noun
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This year, anxiety over the federal government and a wavering stock market is making people less secure in their finances, causing some tenants to move in with family or friends — leaving studio and one-bedroom apartments empty.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Feb. 2026
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The nonprofit, formerly known as Sattvic Meals Foundation, aims to address hunger anxiety at community colleges.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
1 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Some of these investors are looking to ride the latest upward price trend and others are reacting to inflation concerns, economic uncertainties or broader market unease.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
29 Jan. 2026
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Niazi’s writing about her career moves also shows some unease with the personal.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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That was my only real trepidation about doing a series.—
E. Alex Jung,
Vulture,
30 Jan. 2026
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Corporate America comes by its trepidation honestly.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Even in his stillest moments, Reilly hums with the restlessness of a jazz explorer.—
Brad Shoup,
Pitchfork,
24 Jan. 2026
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And that signal often shows up as restlessness or longing.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The Oslo musician’s debut album is a darkly glamorous blur of trip-hop and dance pop, with copious reverb and Auto-Tune as stand-ins for yearning, uneasiness, and irresolution.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
22 Jan. 2026
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Missouri’s uneasiness Some Missouri officials involved in passing their state’s proposal, in interviews with The Star on Friday, expressed general uneasiness at the onslaught of information coming out of Kansas.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
19 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Apple has been caught in the fray on worries that a tight memory cycle will eat into hardware gross margins, given that products such as iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and Macs heavily use DRAM and NAND flash memory.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2026
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There are significant worries that AI can readily go off the rails or otherwise dispense unsuitable or even egregiously inappropriate mental health advice.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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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
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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 4 Feb. 2026.
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