I. verb
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I'd sit in meetings, fretting about what was happening at home.
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Opponents fret that the system might not provide enough help in times of rural economic crisis.
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She worries and frets all the time -- I think it's because she's got no one to talk to about her problems.
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There's no point in fretting over it now.
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And don't fret about your brother, neither.
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For those of us who fret about ways in which modern technology distances us from understanding this programme was a revelation.
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It can't help that he is fretting about possessions when he should be worrying about the state of his marriage.
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No wonder the Bears were fretting.
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The horse cropped at a leisurely pace through the flat Fenland countryside, Illingworth fretting while my friend gazed about calmly.
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There was so much to achieve and I fretted endlessly about the work that was needed to co-ordinate it all.
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They fretted at Reno's tendency to give negotiations one last chance when the going got rough.
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Why is the White House fretting and sending emissaries to gauge what he really wants?
II. noun
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But it had 22 frets, big frets, and really loud humbuckers and that was why I liked it.
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Long-term debts of around £150,000 continue to finger the back of the club's neck as unpleasantly as a north-eastern sea fret .
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The frets are quite thin as well and it doesn't seem to go out of tune that much.
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The set-in neck is maple, with an ebony fingerboard that's loaded with twenty-four biggish frets.
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There are no frets or strings on the guitar neck, and thus nothing to do with your left hand.