disconcert
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Djokovic's on-court aura can disconcert many younger opponents and Alexander Zverev, often described as the best player of his generation to have never won a major, is one of them.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2019
“Not a smile. It’s not the smile that will disconcert me. Not at all. Or his eyes that will make me afraid. Because I’m not afraid of him.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2017
For a while it looked as if the greater variety would disconcert the home defenders, who are so ferociously direct with their advance that they can be thrown by a change of direction.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2012
To faze is to disconcert or embarrass; it comes from a Middle English word, fesen, which meant “drive away” or “put to flight.”
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
From the moment Victor Stott is born, he disconcerts those around him.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022
That shift in focus disconcerts consumer advocates, who are in favor of better financial education, but not at the expense of oversight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2019
As he’s driving home from work, a song comes on the radio that disconcerts him and triggers a whole train of thought.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 6, 2017
What disconcerts me sometimes is what’s expected of the genre.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2014
The silence and the intimacy of the room disconcerts him.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Even Emily Blunt was publicly disconcerted, begging Hollywood agencies to “please stop taking away our human connection.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
“And that’s good. I think a judge should be disconcerted by what he does.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
They are disconcerted by the prospect of apex predators roaming their territory, including on popular trails.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
Even Danny Danon, a Netanyahu ally and former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. who recently predicted a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia in 2023, seemed disconcerted.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
The cook was quite disconcerted as the facts dawned on him.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
But they did have one potentially innovative and surprising, if disconcerting, solution to our national public health information crisis: A.I. has the potential to help stave off a conspiratorial catastrophe during the next pandemic.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Not only is the narrative in this “Animal Farm” not the story you knew it to be, but its social implications could be far more disconcerting than a simple change of ideology.
From Salon ● May 3, 2026
We return to the truly disconcerting thing about the AI moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
It was beyond disconcerting to hear the Iranian foreign minister on Sunday sounding like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky circa 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
Perhaps most disconcerting was when Grandpa was inviting them down to breakfast.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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