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Meanings of fretted about in English

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Usage of fretted about in English
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Her victory sent shares plunging as investors fretted about the leftist president.
Reuters
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Guinea fowls fretted about, like ill-tempered housewives, with their peevish, discontented cry.
Higher Lessons in English: A work on English grammar and composi...
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Pills were for nervous Nellies who fretted about a thousand awful possibilities.
Gravity
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Investors have also fretted about the cost of the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
Reuters
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The War action, and fretted about it until the end of his days.
The War Chief of the Six Nations: A Chronicle of Joseph Brant
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All the things that governments fretted about were beyond irrelevance now.
Anvil Gate
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It was the part of the mind that fretted about numbers and accounts.
Wizardborn
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The media fretted about kids talking to strangers and finding porn.
The Guardian
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He fretted about the roads, this way and that, till hunger oppressed him.
The Emancipated
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Mimi had done the dishes, Bill had dried, and he'd fretted about Kurt.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
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He also fretted about the possibility of an overloaded boat.
Reuters
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When Rosa fretted about her brother, the negress reassured her.
Rainbow's End
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While Jerry Tischendorf fretted about what to do, Joe Accardo must have been laughing.
The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
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But again he fretted about Lobsang's strange instability and impulsiveness.
The Long Earth
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People with birthdays during the eleven days had fretted about how old they were.
Songs of love and death: all-original tales of star-crossed love
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I wouldn't ha' fretted about him, if I'd been she.
The Well-Beloved: A Sketch of a Temperament
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