busyness
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Siad compared his recruiting efforts to fishing: “In This busyness I feel like fisherman some time I cache quick , some time no fish.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
But the location’s busyness, congestion and crowding — it’s in one of the most overcrowded neighborhoods in the country — worried her.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2025
"There was a busyness before. It is only hitting people now."
From BBC • Oct. 17, 2024
The problem lies in our society’s continued glorification of busyness and normalization of sleep deprivation.
From Salon • Jan. 27, 2024
I lie there, listening to the sound of Cathy’s urgent, cheerful busyness, and I think about the clothes on the side of the railway line and about Jess kissing her lover in the morning sunshine.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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