unsteady
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She left to go home at about 22:30 and was seen to be unsteady on her feet.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
As would be feeling unsteady on your feet or being overly concerned with falling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
In her post, Mcallister said: "He was in a bit of an unsteady state due to medication and heat."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
For such small, unsteady organisms, the babies sure could get away from you fast.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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
"Sire," interposed Stanief for very compassion, himself unsteadied by the happiness that makes generosity easy.
From The Game and the Candle by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram
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
A rush of those very sensations at which she had so often gently mocked swept through her consciousness, unsteadying and bewildering her.
From The Wicked Marquis by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
But the continued explosions were unsteadying the hand of the drummer.
From The Lost Warship by Robert Moore Williams
They took their seats, and at last he freed himself from the unsteadying embarrassment which had shaken him at the first sight of her under the brilliant lights of the ballroom.
From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby
