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Discover LudwigThe phrase "apprehensive of losing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when expressing a feeling of anxiety or fear about the possibility of losing something important.
Example: "She felt apprehensive of losing her job after the recent company restructuring."
Alternatives: "worried about losing" or "concerned about losing".
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"Mrs Simpson is, in consequence, apprehensive of losing the affection of POW which she is very anxious to avoid for financial reasons.
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He remained apprehensive about Wednesday's game, saying, "Mexico has a 100percentt chance of losing".
Such reductions often involve tortuous negotiations between different organisations and governments, all apprehensive about losing "sovereignty" over their portion of the sky.
"The new college student may be afflicted by a sense of lost identity in a strange environment... Her newly stimulated intellectual curiosity may make her more sensitive to and apprehensive about unstable national and world conditions".
But experts are apprehensive of how the Government may react.
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He is a distinctly anti-revolutionary conservative, deeply apprehensive of any grassroots challenge.
As both patients are now entitled to confidentiality, I am apprehensive of conflicts of interest.
"He was a fatalist," Wineapple writes, "apprehensive of action -- associated with aggression -- skeptical of result".
I could finally say that I was Algerian without being apprehensive of how people would respond.
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