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Recent Examples of het up As for the airport tray aesthetic, while people might be getting het up at the idea of Gen Z holding up the line for some navel-gazing, the US Transport Security Administration is sanguine about the risk. Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 8 Sep. 2024 So why has the Chanel version gotten people so het up? New York Times, 6 Dec. 2021 Something about unfolding Bennifer events, this rekindling of an old flame, has got all of us het up. Raven Smith, Vogue, 16 June 2021 In a normal December, people would be more concerned with the holidays and a busy schedule and wouldn't get this het up with Congress. Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for het up
Adjective
  • People should be joyful, not worried.
    Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 7 Sep. 2025
  • He’s not focused on the economy, which most Americans are worried about.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There have been some instances, however, when an upset crayfish comes home from a hard day of crayfishing only to have to kick out a frog and cap the burrow.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, for an AI that claims someone is going into something bad, but the AI has computationally misjudged the circumstance, users are bound to howl and get upset with the AI and the AI maker.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Maddie is talented, warm, funny and kind but also anxious, plagued with low self-esteem cultivated by a traumatic childhood.
    Jourdain Searles, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The other may be unsure, though not opposed, but anxious about leaving family and community.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Against Świątek, in two nervous moments, one of them on match point, net cords had given her safe harbor.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The district’s disparate parts would be connected largely by two-lane highways cutting through steep slopes of places such as the Modoc National Forest, where nervous drivers must beware of a lack of guardrails.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Maurice, who had a troubled childhood marked by illness and emotional neglect, was negative and socially ill at ease.
    Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2025
  • In her mind, the community in her fictional story should be one of privilege, a circumstance in which Ruth, who grew up in a working-class Yiddish family, could initially feel ill at ease.
    Esther Zuckerman, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • And that helped to resolve that weird uneasy tension in my head.
    Maria Reva September 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The safe-haven asset offers investors a hedge against an uneasy financial environment as a sharp hiring slowdown coincides with a steady uptick of inflation, according to analysts.
    Max Zahn, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Of course, other corporations have been down a similarly troubled road in recent years.
    Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The filing is known in Italy as a CNC, and offers troubled companies the time and space to restructure, and chart a path forward.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Het up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/het%20up. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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