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- noun The state or quality of being
antsy
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Examples
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I'm totally geeked that I am in fact starting to feel the book-antsiness.
Alert and oriented. After a fashion. ashacat 2008
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If I can do that, then tomorrow, I can either take a vacation day (the only thing scheduled is a visit to my massage therapist) or I can start writing Chill, if the antsiness has gotten unbearable by then.
Alert and oriented. After a fashion. ashacat 2008
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This past weekend, in a possible sign of her growing antsiness, Northup unleashed a barrage of attacks against Yarmuth concerning some controversial newspaper columns he penned in the past.
Midterm Roundup 2009
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And since I sit still and grade for long periods more than three hours at a time, for sure, I can feel it in my hand and in a sort of general antsiness/stiffness.
Archive 2008-05-01 Bardiac 2008
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And since I sit still and grade for long periods more than three hours at a time, for sure, I can feel it in my hand and in a sort of general antsiness/stiffness.
Grading as Athletic Event Bardiac 2008
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Some experts argue that what is being seen as a boy problem is actually maleness itself, with the noisy, energetic antsiness and high jinks of young boys now redefined as a behavior problem by teachers who do not know how to handle them....
Archive 2006-07-01 Ann Althouse 2006
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Increased antsiness about action on climate change can also be traced to the recession, the unedifying spectacle of last December's climate-change summit in Copenhagen, the political realities of the American Senate and an abnormally cold winter in much of the northern hemisphere.
Latest Articles The Economist 2010
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Ivy acts blasé about her epilepsy, but Kazan's quiet antsiness keeps the condition lurking in the background.
FilmCritic Reviews Jesse Hassenger 2010
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They may not always lead her to resolution, but for Jessy Tomsko, they're the perfect conduit through which to channel her many questions, racing thoughts and a general antsiness that is more part of her personality than any unease.
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Increased antsiness about action on climate change can also be traced to the recession, the unedifying spectacle of last December's climate-change summit in Copenhagen, the political realities of the American Senate and an abnormally cold winter in much of the northern hemisphere.
Latest Articles The Economist 2010
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