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  • adverb In a worried manner.

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  • adverb in a worried manner

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Examples

  • Even so, my sisters persist in worriedly advising me to “be careful what I share with the world.”

    tongue-tied 2007

  • The attitude was humble, the expression worriedly sorrowful.

    The Pagan Madonna Harold MacGrath 1901

  • Her mother followed, calling worriedly about breakfast.

    Night World No. 2 L.J. SMITH 1997

  • The man's stories may stick around in your head once you leave the soup kitchen, and you will ruminate on them, reviewing the details worriedly in circles.

    Bernie Glassman: The Buddhist Way Of Being Present To Suffering Bernie Glassman 2011

  • The man's stories may stick around in your head once you leave the soup kitchen, and you will ruminate on them, reviewing the details worriedly in circles.

    Bernie Glassman: The Buddhist Way Of Being Present To Suffering Bernie Glassman 2011

  • Matt asks worriedly—a line which, in terms of character development and economy, is near perfect, absolving him from adult responsibility and affirming the agency's good judgment.

    'Safe House': Familiar Blueprint, Despite Denzel John Anderson 2012

  • Powerful evidence for this view — apart from familiarity with Pentagon budget debates over the years — is that many of the neoconservative thinkers who since 9/11 have concentrated on threats from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran were before that time writing worriedly about China.

    Cyber Warriors 2010

  • "This feature will alienate people and lead to an inevitable followers war that can hurt the health of the social network and inflate people's egos," Kanalley wrote worriedly of the lists.

    Google+ Adds 'Suggested Users List' (PICTURES) 2011

  • Powerful evidence for this view — apart from familiarity with Pentagon budget debates over the years — is that many of the neoconservative thinkers who since 9/11 have concentrated on threats from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran were before that time writing worriedly about China.

    Cyber Warriors 2010

  • Powerful evidence for this view — apart from familiarity with Pentagon budget debates over the years — is that many of the neoconservative thinkers who since 9/11 have concentrated on threats from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran were before that time writing worriedly about China.

    Cyber Warriors 2010

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