worrier
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He was a constant worrier who never let the gas gauge on our secondhand Pontiac fall below three quarters full.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
But it’s been a while and, as you might guess from her movie roles, she tends to be a bit of a worrier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024
“I’ve been a worrier all my life, but a happy worrier,” said Mr. Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader.
From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2022
The movie’s director was a temperamental and anxiety-ridden worrier coming off a recent flop, and he didn’t want either of the two leading men.
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2021
“He would’ve understood you, that’s for sure. He got your whys in a way I never could. But he was such a worrier, and you might have found that exhausting. I know I did, sometimes.”
From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
The other types also embody their names - worriers, pessimists, perfectionists and burnouts who are tired from working too hard.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
The worriers fret that in so doing, we further rip the country asunder because, uh, what if it doesn’t work out the way the purists had hoped?
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2024
Somewhere down the line, tech’s biggest worriers say, it could be a risk to humanity.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2023
For inflation worriers, consumer goods firms bear close watching.
From Reuters ● Feb. 9, 2023
And since all parents are worriers she was convinced that all her friends had the same problems.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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