unsettle

Did anything that happened at the end of June unsettle that?

From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026

His returns were often unorthodox and he was fond of a lobbed service return to unsettle opponents.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

The artworks are as likely to unsettle as they are to move.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 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

"The disclosure of such confidential, sensitive information not only unsettles our workforce; it is also damaging to the business," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 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

What unsettles me is how eagerly people rush to perform the worst versions of themselves when given permission.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

He isn't misunderstood because he behaves badly; he's misunderstood because his existence unsettles old certainties about who gets to define respect.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

The statue unsettles me the longer I stare at it, and I waste no more time leaving the corridor to head to the sky garden.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

There will be a drier and brighter interlude on Wednesday, with the rest of the week staying a little unsettled with further spells of rain.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

The waters of the Pacific Ocean have been unsettled in recent weeks by a series of tropical storms, with some of them developing into hurricanes.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

This goes some distance in explaining why Nolan’s writing of the women in “The Odyssey” left so many people unsettled, and perhaps why it took weeks for “Furious” to build word-of-mouth momentum.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

The work revealed previously hidden species diversity and helped resolve a taxonomic problem that had remained unsettled for years.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Annabeth couldn’t argue with that, but the hard edge in Percy’s voice made her unsettled.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

AI researchers, experts and bosses worried about the technology's potential to endanger humanity have outlined unsettling scenarios.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

We don’t need an unsettling soundtrack to know that bad things happen here, but Tom sees nothing but potential.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Pyongyang sent trash-filled balloons and broadcast unsettling noises across the border during the administration of Lee's hawkish predecessor, Yoon Suk Yeol.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

But as he aggressively attacks his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, and her father, Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno, Miller’s behavior is as bizarre as it is unsettling.

From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026

I remember how unsettling it was to some of us there, in all its mystery.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French