The word apprehensive has appeared in 61 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 17 in “Curling Drifts to the East, Where Rock Stars Are Being Born” by Sui-Lee Wee and Makiko Inoue:
When Mr. Lind arrived in Japan in 2013, Team Fujisawa had won no medals and lacked international experience. He said the biggest cultural difference was seeing how the team played versus how he had learned the game at home.
In Alberta, he said, curlers learned by playing games. But in Japan, they would hone their technical skills by, for example, sliding through cones 100 times. “Even just to get them to play like a fun game against each other, they’re always kind of a little apprehensive,” Mr. Lind said. “They’re like: ‘No, we just want to practice.’”
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