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anxiously

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I'm anxiously waiting for teardown info to see how easy it is to upgrade.

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Quick take

with anxiety or apprehension; "we watched anxiously"

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adverb

with anxiety or apprehension; "we watched anxiously"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for anxiously.

Example sentences

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I'm anxiously waiting for teardown info to see how easy it is to upgrade.

2

Sounds like Ray is anxiously awaiting this movie.

3

This is an event that many people have been waiting anxiously to play out - if this were just a "Bitcoin is at $250" post, fine, I agree.

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Not only do iterators help avoid them in most cases, I'm anxiously awaiting Intel MPX for more hardware support for bounds checks.

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He was always at the takeoff point, watching debugging information scroll up the screen, and anxiously waiting to see what would happen.

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I'd rather enjoy the journey, not anxiously await the destination.

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NYC is so much more hierarchical, image conscious and anxiously intense.

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I anxiously await Gruber's lengthy post-mortem about the fingerprint reader being just as bad as all previous fingerprint readers, equal in number, length and enthusiasm to his previous posts about how wonderful and advanced it is.

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"Delivering your packages when you're home for the night" sounds nice, but why would I want my packages delivered at night?I looked at the blog and it perfectly explained the problem: "How many times have you anxiously awaited a package only to come home and find that dreaded little slip hanging from your front door?

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In the year ~ 100 AD the Roman poet Juvenal wrote:Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circusesThis attitude that "Everyone was great and hard working in the past, but now everyone's superficial" is common enough.

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How do you use anxiously in a sentence?

I'm anxiously waiting for teardown info to see how easy it is to upgrade.

What does anxiously mean?

with anxiety or apprehension; "we watched anxiously"

What part of speech is anxiously?

anxiously is commonly used as adverb.