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careworn

[kair-wawrn, -wohrn] / ˈkɛərˌwɔrn, -ˌwoʊrn /




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"We know our path now," says Ahmed Alhashemi, 42, scrolling through the email, a small smile breaking across his careworn face.

From BBC • Oct. 2, 2025

There's the careworn, eccentric female lead, equally brilliantly realized by newcomer to the screen, Alana Haim.

From Salon • Mar. 19, 2022

With his melancholy, careworn face and battered physicality, Collins lends Jackson a guarded soulfulness that makes his character simultaneously inscrutable and transparent.

From Washington Post • Jan. 18, 2022

His attention gravitates instead toward the Novelos, though sometimes it also alights on the grave, careworn faces of their past and present employees.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2021

The memories of the hard work in the rice fields, her father’s careworn hands, the plain rice in the dinner bowls, and Ma’s sighs washed upon her like the splashes of water from the lake.

From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin




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