hand-wringing
Britishnoun
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But, amid the hand-wringing and reviews, O'Shea believes the RFU was bounced too quickly into jettisoning a coaching group, which was led by Stuart Lancaster and also contained Farrell, Graham Rowntree and Mike Catt.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
There was plenty of hand-wringing in Washington after the collapse of recent U.S.-Canada trade negotiations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Spike Lee’s masterpiece was met with hand-wringing when it arrived in theaters 37 summers ago, with white critics fretting how “urban audiences” would react to its shocking ending of brutality and angry protest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
We thought about this recently as we read the hand-wringing about Social Security’s looming financial woes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
I could hear his hand-wringing through the long echo of the telephone.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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