unnerve
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Amazon’s expansion of its logistics business tends to unnerve investors.
From Barron's ● May 12, 2026
Treacy at Apex sees any change in the Fed’s language around the risk of inflation due to geopolitical conflict as likely to unnerve investors.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026
Energy turmoil could unnerve investors already worried about how much tech companies are spending on data centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
The Dodgers seemed to finally unnerve the Jays in the sixth when singles by Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernández with one out shoved starter Shane Bieber to the dugout.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
That look from the two of them was enough to unnerve me, pushing me back from the edge of tears.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Based in the English city of Bristol, George has an on-the-spectrum manner that unnerves some colleagues, but his record of solving cases is a source of envy on his squad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
A 2006 US embassy cable said he "inspires few but unnerves many".
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
It’s a disconcerting choice, one that hypnotizes as much as it unnerves.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024
It's what it says about the prime minister's character that unnerves so many Tory MPs.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2022
The anxiety on his face unnerves me, because I always expect him to be the strongest of us.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
TD Cowen analyst Robert Moskow said investors have also become unnerved by an expected sales dip for Conagra’s ongoing quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Yet this latest obstacle has truly unnerved him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The local postmaster, a Jacksonian Democrat named Alfred Huger, was unnerved by what he considered inflammatory content and sequestered the abolitionist material, rather than comply with his legal obligation to deliver the mail.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
That has unnerved investors in this prized oligopoly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Odenigbo unnerved him, the way he would brood for long moments and then abruptly ask or say something unexpected.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The experience has been unnerving and “really confusing for me,” she added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Unless of course he’s imagined the unnerving incidents, or Sid has orchestrated them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
In early images released by A24 Holmes is shown maintaining intense, unnerving eye contact with Fielder, scenes that made even him "uncomfortable," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
"Even 80 yeas after the war, Okinawa where we live is a place that is so unnerving," 48-year-old mother of two boys Hitomi Miyagi told the BBC.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
He said this in a curiously unnerving way, his eyes looking into mine and one hand half hiding his lips, as though he were trying to conceal bad teeth.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
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