busyness
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Origin of 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
Adding to the busyness, Puts heavily features the chorus as a collective, omniscient narrator and the characters’ inner voices.
From New York Times • May 6, 2024
If he was lonely before, he didn’t know it because the noise he kept up, the roaring, the busyness, protected him from knowing it.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
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