concerned

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And the tennis player concerned is allegedly the hideously white Andy Murray

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  1. adjective Interested and involved: sent a memorandum to those concerned.
  2. adjective Anxious; troubled: the concerned parents of youthful offenders.

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  • But the relation of words to objects other than words varies according to the kind of word concerned, and this gives rise to a logical form of the doctrine of parts of speech. —  My Philosophical Development
  • That is the problem with Business School economists who really should be called "busi-nomists" rather than eco-nomists because by definition and by design they are not concerned with eco, a Greek word oikos, meaning "house". —  Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas
  • And the tennis player concerned is allegedly the hideously white —  Harry's Place
  • And the tennis player concerned is allegedly the hideously white Andy Murray —  Slugger O'Toole
  • And as far as we're concerned, that is a good thing. —  Latest from PALGN
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