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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrought (up)
Adjective
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Dickinson appeared somewhere between perturbed and seething.—
Phil Thompson,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The Swedish Film Institute’s Cinemateket, meanwhile, hosted Svenska Synden – a retrospective examining how Swedish cinema’s permissive approach to nudity and sexuality became an international phenomenon that alarmed censors around the world.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
19 May 2026
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Organizations whose competitive position lives there should be alarmed.—
Joel Hron,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
Adjective
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All season, the teenagers on The Audacity have been set up as troubled, neglected afterthoughts to their parents’ indulgences and machinations, and the show finally pulls the trigger on Chekhov’s gun.—
Scott Tobias,
Vulture,
24 May 2026
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Fahy noted New York's psychiatric facilities have their own troubled history.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
24 May 2026
Adjective
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The moment capped a chaotic rivalry game between the reigning Open Division champions and a Kennedy team that was pushing for an upset, with defensive miscues helping shape the late innings for both sides.—
Ethan Hanson,
Daily News,
23 May 2026
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But the cash Levine pumped into his own campaign — about one-fifth of his net worth at the time — wasn’t enough to beat Gillum, the former Tallahassee mayor, a progressive who won the primary in a stunning upset.—
Aaron Leibowitz,
Miami Herald,
23 May 2026
Adjective
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Reformers were worried that putting more money into the hands of local school districts, without oversight to ensure that it was being spent effectively, would lead to its diversion into administration and more generous union contracts rather than hands-on instruction for kids who needed it most.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
14 May 2026
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Yu said that, as China has strengthened its social safety net, people are less worried about having to rely on others.—
Janis Mackey Frayer,
NBC news,
14 May 2026
Adjective
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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
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The person might become unduly disturbed and fall for the assumption that the AI must be right.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2026
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Steve added that because the soil between plants wasn’t disturbed, very few weeds grew, and only four out of 1,000 peonies failed to emerge the following spring.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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Gocaj’s distraught relatives told WABC Eyewitness News that the Westchester resident had two children and two grandchildren.—
New York Daily News,
Boston Herald,
20 May 2026
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Louis Shapiro, that man’s attorney, said his client was distraught and still processing the tragedy.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2026
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“Wrought (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrought%20%28up%29. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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