unsteady
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The talks also come at an unsteady time for the world's second-largest economy, which has struggled to address persistently sluggish domestic spending and a protracted crisis in the crucial property sector.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Any influence Laura Overdeck gains at Two Sigma could upset the delicate and unsteady power arrangement between the firm’s founders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Posting on social media, Mcallister said Scott, from Elgin, had become unsteady due to his medication and the heat, and did not have his phone or wallet with him.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
When he’s unsteady, every leap is perilously close to a free fall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
In an unsteady voice he took his oath.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
From oil prices to regional alliances, the six-month-old conflict has defied expectations and unsteadied the global balance of power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
The challenge will be not getting unsteadied by meticulously curated opposing pitching plans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
I breathed out, took my foot off the gas, and the car quivered, unsteadied.
From The Verge ● Feb. 9, 2016
At the same time, he knows what it’s like to be unsteadied by professional disappointment – and, worse, to be toppled, outright, by personal tragedy.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2015
The impact unsteadied her afresh; and she covered her face again shaken with sobs.
From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver
Volckmer has said the subheading was kept off the cover “as a surprise” – making it the first of many unsteadying gear shifts in a monologue that sets out to unsettle.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2020
It is deeply unsteadying to ponder the possibility that Riefenstahl might have been both a considerable artist and a considerable Nazi.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015
Perhaps the strain on the poor doctor’s nerves was unsteadying him by this time: he may not have seen right; but he seemed to see only one name, as if compounded from the former two.
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
But the continued explosions were unsteadying the hand of the drummer.
From The Lost Warship by Robert Moore Williams
It was going to be more unsteadying than she had foreseen.
From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver
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