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- adverb In a
worrisome way.
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Examples
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But it is worrisomely clear that the task of putting millions of unemployed and underemployed Americans back to work will take an anguishing amount of time.
Notable & Quotable 2011
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I finally exchanged 12 rupees approximately 27 cents for two vada pav smothered in green chutney worrisomely darkened from oxidation.
Pow, Right in the Fritter Rob Mifsud 2011
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The big mid-show number from Fela started off worrisomely with some hideous, screechy singing from a woman wearing a hat twice as big as her head, but once she stopped harshly bellowing at us, it turned into something fine, with wonderful dancing by some very hot dancers wearing very little clothing, and one heck of a gorgeous, half-naked, well-muscled conga drummer.
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The military campaign has been put off from June and support for the Taliban remains worrisomely strong.
Doug Bandow: President Obama: Why Are We in Afghanistan? 2010
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The military campaign has been put off from June and support for the Taliban remains worrisomely strong.
Doug Bandow: President Obama: Why Are We in Afghanistan? 2010
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The big mid-show number from Fela started off worrisomely with some hideous, screechy singing from a woman wearing a hat twice as big as her head, but once she stopped harshly bellowing at us, it turned into something fine, with wonderful dancing by some very hot dancers wearing very little clothing, and one heck of a gorgeous, half-naked, well-muscled conga drummer.
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Mr. Buckley has a worrisomely tough time laying the groundwork for this premise, but his idea soon yields the exquisitely dizzy, Wodehouse-style mischief that is his specialty.
Boomsday: Summary and book reviews of Boomsday by Christopher Buckley. 2007
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Judging from figures obtained from the registrar's office in Al-Aqsa hospital, a small hospital in central Gaza, children aren't always quite that high a percentage of the victims, though still worrisomely numerous.
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We really should have initiated that energy Apollo Project after the second crisis in 1979, for now, the doom projected by some, is worrisomely close at hand.
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Perhaps their haste to scarper indicated they knew something the market and Daimler didn't, like the fact that a company whose profitability was solely dependent on sales of retrograde SUVs and pickups was worrisomely vulnerable to upturns in gasoline prices, a widely anticipated wave of new Asian competition, and the inevitably shifting pendulum of automotive fashion.
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