hand-wringing
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“Passive index investors may barely notice Wall Street’s dispersion trade, or the growing hand-wringing over AI,” said Bret Kenwell, U.S. investment analyst at eToro.
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026
He said he had little patience for European hand-wringing and was confident that the issue of Greenland would be resolved to everyone’s benefit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026
Instead of hand-wringing about all of the doom and gloom like so many other filmmakers, Anderson lets the viewer have some fun, deftly straddling the line between bleak and downright silly.
From Salon • Dec. 5, 2025
The tsunami of AI slop and the attendant hand-wringing reminds us, indeed, that “there is nothing new under the sun,” as the Book of Ecclesiastes put it.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
Apart from that, there wasn’t a whole lot of hand-wringing inside FrontPoint.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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