wrought (up)

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Adjective
  • Dickinson appeared somewhere between perturbed and seething.
    Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • When the shots rang out, the first lady looked alarmed.
    CBS News, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The company in March Nielsen delayed the release of the February results of its popular tabulation after some clients became alarmed by a downturn in streaming audiences following a decision by the measurement giant to add new data to its mix.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • But, in the end, the artists – who’d been out there alone, navigating the same troubled waters – understood the potential.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Four people were wounded early Sunday in a shooting at a troubled Queens nightclub with a history of violence and murder.
    John Annese, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The Brooklyn grandmom was upset that the women were allowing their dogs to defecate in an empty lot next to her property, her son told the Daily News at the time.
    Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • My mom was very upset that the inheritance was not divided up equally and asked me several times why my portion would be so much larger.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • So how worried should these teams be?
    Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
  • People that maybe have a more precarious position in the industry and are worried and see AI as a threat — which is absolutely valid — and younger people, younger actors and musicians.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • When Dodge promoted her talk on Instagram earlier this month, the post attracted nearly 1,300 comments, many of which were written by disquieted Dodge students and alumni.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • And a disturbed microbiome may contribute to colorectal cancer.
    Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 27 Apr. 2026
  • One of them, a disturbed Army veteran carrying a knife, jumped the fence in 2014 and raced into the White House, making his way into the East Room before heading back down a hallway on the State Floor deep within the mansion.
    Meg Kinnard, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • His widow, Erika Kirk, was at this weekend’s dinner, visibly distraught as she was escorted out in her sequined cream dress.
    Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 26 Apr. 2026
  • While rescuers searched in vain, distraught relatives of passengers rushed to the ValuJet counter at Miami International.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2026
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“Wrought (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrought%20%28up%29. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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