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I believe the answer is:

tense

(Other definitions for tense that I've seen before include "Form of verb showing time" , "Uneasy" , "past possibly" , "Anxious - future, perhaps?" , "Strained by time in grammar" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.
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