disturbing
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The allegations uncovered by Panorama are "disturbing" and "incredibly worrying", said one of the country's leading women's safety charities.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
“The stranger and more disturbing an incident was, the faster you needed to forget it again.”
From Salon • May 17, 2026
When Max Wolf Friedlich wrote “Job,” which undergoes tonal shifts and ends in a disturbing place, he said he used well-placed jokes to cut the tension.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
So the only reasonable charge was violating the city ordinance against disturbing “the peace of others by violent, offensive or boisterous conduct or language,” but that was tacked on later, in February.
From Slate • May 4, 2026
Homo sapiens has kept hidden an even more disturbing secret.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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