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  • verb Present participle of angst.

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Examples

  • If I had any complaint it would just be a small one, that sometimes some of the angsting was a tad overdone and I occasionally wanted to boot Michael up the backside for stammering and stuttering instead of speaking up.

    Vulpes Libris 2008

  • I'm pretty sure that very few people under the age of thirty-five remember what the word angst actually means, or know that "angsting" isn't a word, or that feeling and expressing angst is not a sign of weakness or something to be loathed and mocked.

    Only half awake, she types just fine, Sir. serenavalentino 2009

  • And also, Stephen Moffat had been offered control over a show in America (so he's not even in the same country as DW) that was going to pay him five times what he could make on Who and so Russel T. Davis was back in charge and had a clause in his contract saying no serious angsting was allowed for the first two of those three years.

    New Icon Squee amberfocus 2009

  • Bening is angsting over giving up her daughter for adoption years ago; said daughter Watts has relationship issues of her own; meanwhile an infertile couple stress over using a surrogate mother.

    This week's new films 2012

  • Two of the characters drove me nuts with their angsting, but I loved the rest.

    Friday Book Club Nalini Singh 2010

  • As for what makes the book distinct ... people tell me Marla differs from many UF heroines in that she doesn't have much of a love life (or even a sex life, really), doesn't suffer from low self-esteem, and doesn't spend much time angsting; there's not a lot of distance between her thoughts and her actions, and she's almost always sure she's right ... even when she's wrong.

    INTERVIEW: Tim Pratt 2009

  • There wouldn ` t have been a post angsting about whether or not to quit; there wouldn ` t have been a post proclaiming some long goodbye.

    Sufficient Unto This Day | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • I can't procrastinate about NaNoWriMo until I finish procrastinating about the rewrite I'm still working on but at least the existence of NaNoWriMo on my list of things to procrastinate about means that procrastinating about mailing Christmas cards and angsting about too many relatives and not enough money for presents can be pushed back into December, where it belongs, Deck The Damn Halls playing on the Walmart Television Network not withstanding.

    Today's Nanowrimo Inspirational Diatribe; Or, Don't Say We Never Did Anything For You 2009

  • Rather than angsting about general ill-being, shouldn't we be firing up the raging energies of "mathletic" entrepreneurs – coding, designing and splicing new markets into being?

    The wellbeing agenda isn't navel-gazing, it's innovation and survival | Pat Kane 2011

  • While Chelsea P. tosses and turns, angsting over whether her boyfriend of three years will support the 20 permutations she sees her career possibly taking, her mother sleeps very soundly after her second divorce thousands of miles away.

    Do Today's Women Have It Better Or Worse? Amalia McGibbon 2010

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