Recent Examples on the WebAs Queenie, a 25-year-old second-generation British Jamaican, Brown, who is in nearly every scene that isn’t a flashback and narrates throughout, makes a whole person out of a variety of attitudes — hopeful, hopeless, hungover, exuberant, fretful, thoughtful.—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024 While fretful Mercury in your domestic zone rattles controlling Pluto in your sign, obvious evidence of turmoil in your family life could thwart your effort to maintain a cool and mysterious image.—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2024 This accelerated with globalization after the end of the Cold War and the onset of atomization with the arrival of the smartphone (that prodigious generator of status anxiety), leading to more unequal, more polarized, more fretful societies.—Roger Cohen, New York Times, 5 May 2024 As the fretful Moon in your money zone provokes repressive Saturn in your 5th House of Fun, you may be concerned that this effort gets in the way of your ability to enjoy yourself.—Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2024 In the last year, all of the interest and concern about VR and its cousin, augmented reality, was subsumed by the fretful conversation about generative artificial intelligence, and for good reason.—Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2024 Within hours of the attacks, fretful voices worried about making a civilizational clash a self-fulfilling reality.—Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023 To be robust but sour, like an alarm clock, is to make a fretful noise.—The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023 Some economists in Denmark worry that the country could become too dependent on Novo Nordisk, with fretful comparisons to the fate of the Finnish economy when Nokia lost its dominance in the cellphone industry.—Eshe Nelson, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
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