unsettling

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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has told civil servants he values them speaking "truth to power", in a letter that acknowledges an "unsettling" period for the civil service.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

What’s unsettling isn’t that prediction markets exist; it’s what they keep exposing: that secret knowledge moves freely when money waits.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

It started with a scary earthquake near Reno, then more unsettling shaking near Las Vegas.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

This unsettling idea is what defines the Boltzmann brain hypothesis.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

“But that is their business, not mine. What matters is that now he will be fully occupied with his ostrich-racing business and forget all those unsettling things he said about the children.”

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood