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as in excitable
easily excited by nature
a jittery person who shouldn't even consider a career as an air traffic controller
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as in worried
feeling or showing uncomfortable feelings of uncertainty
feeling a little jittery before the flight
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Recent Examples of jittery
The pressure is building for beauty’s biggest companies and Wall Street seems to be jittery about how the year will play out.
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Kathryn Hopkins, WWD, 25 Feb. 2025
Valencia-born, and raised in England and the Netherlands, the 35-year-old Ferran is jittery and angular, wringing her hands and playing with the zipper on her shearling gilet.
—Kate Lloyd, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2025
The backdrop, though, is jittery consumers and businesses that are dialing up inflation forecasts and downgrading expectations for the economy, as President Trump ramps up tariff plans.
—Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
After a jittery start, the Wolverines played the part at home Friday night in a quarterfinal Open Division playoff game, coming from nine points down to hand Grossmont a 53-40 loss.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
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Kathryn Hopkins, WWD, 25 Feb. 2025
Valencia-born, and raised in England and the Netherlands, the 35-year-old Ferran is jittery and angular, wringing her hands and playing with the zipper on her shearling gilet.
—Kate Lloyd, Vogue, 20 Feb. 2025
The backdrop, though, is jittery consumers and businesses that are dialing up inflation forecasts and downgrading expectations for the economy, as President Trump ramps up tariff plans.
—Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
After a jittery start, the Wolverines played the part at home Friday night in a quarterfinal Open Division playoff game, coming from nine points down to hand Grossmont a 53-40 loss.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jittery
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And if Django’s Billy Crash tapped into Goggins’s ability to thrive with brutal spite, Mannix plays more to Goggins’s excitable energy and capacity for being clever (even when his character seems to be anything but).—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
6 Apr. 2025
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For someone so obsessed with the granular details of carbohydrates and fueling, Roche runs with an easy, excitable freedom.—
Devin Kelly,
Outside Online,
3 Apr. 2025
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As the Trump administration makes major cuts to federal health agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, some Alzheimer's experts are worried about research for the brain-impairing disease being halted, which could impact treatment options and the lives of patients and their families.—
Sara Moniuszko,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2025
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Many Americans are worried that their First Amendment right to free speech is fading.—
Leila Fadel,
NPR,
7 Apr. 2025
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The unemployment rate is pretty low at the moment, but under the hood Americans sure are nervous about the job market.—
Emily Peck,
Axios,
21 Mar. 2025
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This causes folks to be nervous, which triggers a lack in consumer confidence.—
Gary Franks,
Hartford Courant,
21 Mar. 2025
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Not that Wendlinger is anxious for her time with the Mustangs to end.—
Michael Osipoff,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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Friday, a government report showed that the U.S. labor market held up better than expected in March despite the federal government’s layoffs, the crackdown on immigrants, and surveys showing that consumers and businesses are increasingly anxious about the economy.—
Josh Fellman,
Quartz,
4 Apr. 2025
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The Pacers pulled off an upset series win against a then No. 3 seed Bucks in six games last year without Giannis Antetokounmpo.—
Homero De la Fuente,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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But any lower than that seems like a waste, as, unfortunately, oddsmakers have already priced in some of the potential upset picks.—
Jeff Gluck,
New York Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, some attendees at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, started to feel uneasy.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
10 Apr. 2025
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But Sherrill remains uneasy about what could happen next.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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Mark Pellington directs the conspiracy thriller about a troubled vet (Gladstone) struggling with addiction who is recruited by a contractor (Cranston) for a covert government plot to assassinate a high-level politician.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2025
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Believe it or not, the film's director James Hawes insists Bernthal's secret agent code name was not an intentional call-out to his current run as the late, troubled, elder Berzatto brother Mikey on TV.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Jittery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jittery. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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