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- noun Plural form of
worrywart .
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Examples
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Generalized anxiety disorder patients are often characterized as "worrywarts," worrying about the future and the past to a problematic degree.
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Generalized anxiety disorder patients are often characterized as "worrywarts," worrying about the future and the past to a problematic degree.
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Generalized anxiety disorder patients are often characterized as "worrywarts," worrying about the future and the past to a problematic degree.
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When this open-interest reading is low, it tends to mean that worrywarts are worrying less, and that volatility traders who thrive on fears for the sector have stepped back.
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To their credit, the film-makers made great efforts to look after and guide them, but it didn't stop the western worrywarts: Now little Indian children, you are being rewarded for appearing in an international movie hit.
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If there were real evidence that right-wing hyperbole incites violence, the worrywarts wouldn't be relying so heavily on a fantasy about Jared Lee Loughner.
Jeff Norman: No Known Link Between Right-Wing Rhetoric and Tucson Tragedy
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Even a fresh supply of U.S. debt and the rebound in commodity prices weren't "enough to keep worrywarts satisfied," said Andrew Wilkinson , senior market analyst at Interactive Brokers, adding that the S&P's Greece downgrade soured financial markets' earlier positive sentiment and brought U.S. government bonds back into favor.
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S. government doesn't have a short-run borrowing problem at all, contrary to the fears of the worrywarts.
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If there were real evidence that right-wing hyperbole incites violence, the worrywarts wouldn't be relying so heavily on a fantasy about Jared Lee Loughner.
Jeff Norman: No Known Link Between Right-Wing Rhetoric and Tucson Tragedy
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Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" came out just a few weeks ago and it is easy to feel skeptical of worrywarts agonizing about Americans "wrestling" with too many choices and "coping" with the effects of too much Internet use.
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