panicky

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for panicky
Adjective
  • Many tourism leaders in gateway towns near them are worried tourists will start going elsewhere if the park experience or its environment gets eroded.
    Kirk Siegler, NPR, 24 July 2025
  • Among the key findings: Fifty-six percent of consumers are worried about affording their school supplies due to price hikes from tariffs.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • Cafu, on the other hand, will be entering the ring with plenty of confidence and hunger, knowing that an upset win could change his life and put him at the center of the super flyweight spotlight.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
  • All of the under-the-table deals are out in the open, generally speaking, and folks are upset.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 18 July 2025
Adjective
  • But Georgi seems apprehensive about their upcoming visit.
    Abigail Adams, People.com, 6 July 2025
  • Before the 1991 trip, none of the Abilene Boys had appeared apprehensive.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • Despite more than 50 years in show business – running the gamut of Broadway, TV and film − Martin Short refreshingly still feels nervous ahead of hosting his first game show.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 23 July 2025
  • Joe Mazur, senior analyst at Trivium China, a research and advisory firm, said the use of exit bans and the lack of clarity around specific cases will make foreign companies extremely nervous about sending staff to China, damaging overall business confidence.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • More than 25,000 onlookers came to see the whale over the next few days, but when a thunderstorm erupted on July 5, the whale became frightened.
    Kaycee Sloan, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • Many people may be intrinsically frightened of robots.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • With Iran and its proxies diminished and Gulf states anxious to diversify their economies, any prospect for broader peace and normalization runs through Riyadh.
    Edward Felsenthal, Time, 23 July 2025
  • This is their first major sit-down interview together, and both are a bit anxious.
    James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • And the real-world interest in conspiracy theories provides a feedback loop for Hollywood to make more of these stories see under: Ryan Coogler developing a new X-Files for these jittery 2020s times — which powers and makes these real-world theories even more fun.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 19 July 2025
  • Darvish has handled the October pressure well since his former Rangers colleague, Padres president of baseball operations A.J. Preller, advantaged by a rising payroll at a time when Cubs ownership was made jittery by the pandemic, got him ahead of the 2021 season via a lopsided trade.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • Although Indiana has not experienced an immigration raid at this scale, community leaders shared that many in migrant communities are afraid that they may potentially be picked up off the street and deported, whether rightfully or not.
    Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 23 July 2025
  • If getting this set up on your own sounds daunting, don’t be afraid to ask for help, McCoy says.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 23 July 2025
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“Panicky.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/panicky. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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