unsettle
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He specifically says he won’t unsettle the financial markets that rely on having an independent Fed.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026
Still, few things unsettle hikers more than the possibility of a grizzly encounter.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
These tensions could unsettle production in electric vehicles and defence equipment too, says Naoki Hattori, chief Japan economist at Mizuho.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
Even better, he has used his beauty not to become a matinee idol but to unsettle and surprise us, portraying characters whose handsomeness is very much the point but not the whole story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Then the monkey words would unsettle me; a curtain flapped loose inside my brain.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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The Barcelona forward's excellent ball control and dribbling skills clearly unsettles defences and pulled the Austrian defenders towards him to create more space for Oyarzabal.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
The grand old man of Victorian letters was once a young romantic whose grief-soaked verse still dazzles and unsettles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
The sight of water in the parched desert unsettles your perceptions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
“It roils the markets,” he said, adding that it unsettles both investors and the legal framework surrounding the Fed.
From Barron's ● Jan. 12, 2026
It unsettles me to see her so agitated, like the ground I’m standing on is no longer solid.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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If the deal falls through or is still unsettled by June 2027, it could pay Warner a $7 billion breakup fee or renegotiate the deadline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
Next week, the forecast looks more unsettled, with more of a chance of rain, though it is likely to be northwestern parts of the UK which are the wettest.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Parts of the northern and western UK saw some rainfall over the weekend, with further showers and unsettled conditions expected over the next few days.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Still, it’s clear that investors in recent months have felt unsettled.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 25, 2026
“I am afraid my stomach has become unsettled from too much pickle.”
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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Miller has been racking up a series of unsettling on-camera appearances in which his attempts at defending himself instead reveal a deep well of dishonesty.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
It inherently asks us to consume these people and needs us to in order to make money, but sometimes consumers want to unhinge their jaws and eat these stars whole, a frightening and unsettling behavior.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026
Etching chips with DUV "is slower, lower-yield and more expensive than EUV production, but it is proving sufficient for near-frontier chips, unsettling policymakers and investors who had assumed China faced tighter constraints".
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Friday’s agreement with the state attorneys general to delay the merger’s close until after an antitrust trial, which will likely be held in 2027, also was unsettling to shareholders and some employees.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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
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