Synonyms for anxiously
anx·ious·ly

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1. anxiously, uneasily, apprehensivelyadverb

   with anxiety or apprehension

   "we watched anxiously"

   Synonyms:
   uneasily, apprehensively

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1. List of paraphrases for "anxiously":

   eagerly, impatiently

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1. Randolph Bourne:

   We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

2. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson:

   Our community has been anxiously awaiting the return of our three hometown heroes – Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos and Spencer Stone – so that we can celebrate and honor their incredible courage.

3. Lukman Faily:

   The Embassy staff and I offer our prayers for the safety of the pilot and to The Embassy staff family which is anxiously waiting an update on his status.

4. Amesh Adalja:

   It's moved the needle a little bit for me -- I think that it shows that it's safe, i anxiously await Phase 2 trial data, which is much more useful to us in trying to demonstrate whether or not this vaccine will ultimately be effective.

5. Marina Litvinovich:

   The first crisis occurred when police vans and buses (with detainees) were driving around Moscow anxiously and jails didn’t let them in. They didn’t know where to put people, some people were brought back to police precincts. Some were standing the whole day inside police vans near the jails. Some got lucky and they were given food and taken to toilets. Some didn’t have luck and they had to pee in a bottle.