worries

verb

present tense third-person singular of worry
1
as in fears
to experience concern or anxiety they worried for days about whether the loan would be approved

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2
as in concerns
to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy those strange noises outside the house worry me

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Recent Examples of worries Bateman worries audiences may eventually stop caring whether a performance comes from a human being or AI. — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026 Wolf worries about people being able to afford to stay in or move to the area and about protecting the health of local fisheries so important to the economy. — Becky Bohrer, Fortune, 13 July 2026 Wolf worries about people being able to afford to stay in or move to the area and about protecting the health of local fisheries so important to the economy. — ABC News, 11 July 2026 Merville also worries about the broader impact on Bridgeport, particularly the health care workforce. — Reginald David, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026 And that’s actually exactly the point that worries me, Janna. — Quanta Magazine, 9 July 2026 As a finance professor who has been closely watching the spread of AI into personal finance, this is the part of the AI story that worries me most. — Pawan Jain, The Conversation, 7 July 2026 As neighborhoods have grown closer, Gordon worries not only about the animals’ safety, but also about the rescue’s long-term stability. — Maveah Griffith, Charlotte Observer, 3 July 2026 Humans Still Need To Connect The Dots One thing that worries me is how quickly people assume AI understands consequences. — David Van Ronk, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for worries
  1. fears
  2. concerns
  3. stresses
  4. bothers
  5. frets
  6. alarms
  7. troubles
  8. disturbs
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  • Wedding season is in full swing, bringing with it a familiar sense of dread for anyone who fears the dance floor.
    — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 11 July 2026
  • Former Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor fears what could happen if Americans lose faith the courts will apply the law without regard to politics, party or social standing.
    — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 11 July 2026
Definition of fears
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  • Bradač’s proof concerns off-diagonal Ramsey numbers, which allow for large differences between the size of a clique and the size of an independent set.
    — Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 15 July 2026
  • Lyndsy Fonseca, rapper Russ, Tom Cavanagh, Hunter King, Joseph Lee Anderson and Rob Riggle star in the indie film, which concerns a group of campers who run into a nasty, giant, prehistoric spider.
    — William Earl, Variety, 15 July 2026
Definition of concerns
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  • Those juxtaposing results, and the opposing emotions that came with them, are a reminder of why Cristobal stresses that his team avoids the external talk around his team.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026
  • Campos stresses that OpenAI’s refinement, while important, should not overshadow the conceptual leap made in the original work.
    — Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 15 July 2026
Definition of stresses
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  • If that bothers you, then a significant projection for Bo Nix’s season will make your skin crawl.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 6 July 2026
  • What bothers me more is when passengers take up valuable overhead bin space with personal items like backpacks and jackets before everyone has finished boarding.
    — Skyli Alvarez, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 July 2026
Definition of bothers
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  • Kate, for her part, frets that her grieving husband is lacking male companionship.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Baelor’s brother, Maekar — who actually delivered the killing blow — also frets over how Duncan has changed the course of history.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
Definition of frets
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  • He becomes increasingly consumed by the otherworldly dimension, which alarms his therapist, Mary (Renate Reinsve).
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 30 May 2026
  • The focal point of escalating concern is oldest son Jeremy (Edik Beddoes) whose increasingly erratic behavior alarms those around him, not only for his safety but others as well.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 May 2026
Definition of alarms
Verb
  • One death especially, that of his young cousin Sinon (Elliot Page), troubles him most of all.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
  • The asymmetry—Anthropic penalized while OpenAI was not—is what troubles him most.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 June 2026
Definition of troubles
Verb
  • Tilling or plowing in the summer disturbs the soil's delicate ecosystem and exposes moist soil to rapid water loss.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 24 June 2026
  • The pier in Michigan City’s Washington Park disturbs the natural flow of sand along the lakeshore, creating new land east of the pier but starving beaches to the west, an erosion problem repeated by other manmade structures that jut out into Lake Michigan.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
Definition of disturbs

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