fretting
present participle offret
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Infants who showed a combination of frequent, vigorous motor activity combined with frequentfrettingand crying were classified as high reactive (22% of the sample).
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The stressedfrettingand scratching and the iterative jumpiness in motion become less marked without slowing down, be it remarked.
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Infants who showed the opposite profile of infrequent motor activity and infrequentfrettingand crying were classified as low reactive (40% of the sample).
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Aggressive children spent less time attending to the task and more timefrettingor throwing tantrums, and they engaged in fewer putative regulatory behaviors than did the control children.
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The videotapes of each infant's behaviors were coded reliably for the frequency of motor activity (movement of the limbs and arching of the back),fretting, and crying.
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Jealousy can anxiously awaken; away withfretting: we'll joke and laugh.
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I hasten to assure him about the point that was worrying him, lest he overload his heartfrettingabout it.
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To do something means to do nothing, and to do nothing means to befrettingbecause there is nothing to do.
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I fear, and fear greatly, the idea of boys and girls sitting andfrettingat their desks when they could be out helping others.
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Others arefrettingabout not being able to benefit more from the protective shield provided by the euro.
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The objective is also to strengthen the new bourgeoisie,frettingabout its sovereignty as people become more and more aware of what they lost along with socialism.
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Then there are the families who cannot afford the soaring rents, relying on benefits that do not pay the whole rent;frettingabout how they will cope.
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Furthermore, he used the injured fingers predominantly forfrettingchords rather than single-note solos.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He used the 18:17 ratio forfrettingthe lute (although some adjustment was necessary for pure octaves).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This allows the broadly defined notions of galling,fretting, sticking, stiction and adhesion to overlap in some instances.
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