The phrase "able to worry" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has the capacity or capability to feel concern or anxiety about something.
Example: "Despite the challenges ahead, she was able to worry about the little things that often went unnoticed."
Alternatives: "capable of worrying" or "able to feel concern".
She made time to see her friends and was able to worry less about her work.
Being able to worry only about our team's ineptitude is, perversely, a sort of privilege.
Ms. Santiago considers it a blessing these days to be able to worry only about her dog.
They said, 'It's like a great hotel suite.' " For Mrs. Spelling, 62, mother of the actors Tori and Randy Spelling, the draw was being able to worry less about the upkeep of a house and being ready to travel more two years after the death of her husband, who was afraid of flying, she said.
In fact, we should remember that it is a privilege to even be able to worry about what kind of 'page' your child is reading from.
That's a problem Osborne would love to be able to worry about but he will know that his Budget - like that one - is likely to be judged later by whether the chancellor was right to stick to his economic policy or should have taken the chance to change it.
"If you're able not to worry too much, that will help you.
My emotional ties to him had pretty much disintegrated, which is to say I was able to just worry about him the way I'd worry about any semi hope-to-die addict I knew.
And one group, which it kills me to think about, are older retired people many who worked several decades and should now be able to not worry and enjoy the years they have left.
After working the majority of your life, it's a nice opportunity to be able to not worry about going to work everyday and enduring the usual workday stress.
It is like a moment from childhood, or even adulthood, in which I am able to stop worrying about a pressing matter for a moment in the full knowledge that the worry will come back.
