as in apprehensively
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uneasily
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Escalator over the Hill Again no choice For the poor pale house Riding uneasily Over the Hill In a phone interview, Mantler recalled learning her part by heart as her mother sang the words into her ear.—
Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim,
New York Times,
1 May 2025 -
And so human rights violators were still sanctioned, the United States agreed to ship antitank missiles to Ukraine, and relations with Mexico were uneasily patched up.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Jan. 2018
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“Anxiously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anxiously. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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