as in upset
feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty
the soldier's father had a worried expression as he listened to the news
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as in feared
to experience concern or anxiety
they worried for days about whether the loan would be approved
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as in alarmed
to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy
those strange noises outside the house worry me
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Recent Examples of worried
Sarah Scott,
Parents,
30 June 2026
The company is worried that outputs from rival models could inadvertently seep into its own training data, a practice known as distillation that may violate Claude and Codex usage agreements.
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Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
30 June 2026
Kansas City Public Library Staff,
Kansas City Star,
1 July 2026
People were worried beforehand about the ticket prices and the stadiums maybe not being full.
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Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
1 July 2026
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Adjective
No one was worried about screentime, and teachers didn't have to battle phones and short attention spans to capture their students' imaginations.
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Sarah Scott,
Parents,
30 June 2026
The company is worried that outputs from rival models could inadvertently seep into its own training data, a practice known as distillation that may violate Claude and Codex usage agreements.
—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
30 June 2026
Verb
City leaders worried about what would happen when the Kaw’s waters spilled into the Missouri River and ordered residents to evacuate.
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Kansas City Public Library Staff,
Kansas City Star,
1 July 2026
People were worried beforehand about the ticket prices and the stadiums maybe not being full.
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Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
1 July 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for worried
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Play was held up after some upset fans threw things onto the field after the controversial offside call.
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Usually, when the USMNT enters the knockout stage in the World Cup, they’re considered the underdogs, hoping to be scrappy to force an upset.
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It was initially feared that the 29-year-old Mainz defender would miss the rest of the World Cup.
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Government officials feared that housing so many prisoners could create security problems and heighten fears among Americans at home.
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Those measures, however, have alarmed privacy advocates, who argue that age-gating the internet would affect all users — not just children.
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That’s alarmed the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents about 400 nurses and staff at two psychiatric hospitals in Sacramento.
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At Clis boutique in Melrose Park, owner Jeimmy Espina is nervous and overwhelmed by the number of dead and injured in her home country.
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Apple head honchos are nervous about cybersecurity – and one reason might be a recent supply chain attack on supplier Tata, the largest Indian company of its kind to ink a partnership with the front-running American smartphone company.
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But the recent action on Anthropic, as well as asking OpenAI to limit its own newest model, comes after experts have fretted for months that Mythos could pose a security risk by giving hackers and other bad actors access to AI capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities exceptionally quickly.
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Copilot has struggled, and Microsoft’s shares are down double-digits in the past year as investors have fretted over AI’s impact on software, Microsoft’s reliance on OpenAI, and its heavy data center spending.
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But both are concerned as heck about their missing boy, Carter, who is having some growing-up issues with his parents.
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The mom added that she is concerned after claiming that no one from the camp told her about the incident.
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Though fans are anxious to see Andrade return to more events, her job in Rio is done.
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Homeless, his body torn, Odysseus needs to get back to her and Telemachus, his anxious son, and to clean up the mess.
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Jack Compton / Getty Images Gray also stressed the importance of keeping the locker room together despite the frustrating stretch.
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For a family already scared and stressed, that free access made a big difference.
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“Worried.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worried. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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