unsteady
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While leading the game 2-1, Scotland's Menzies stepped away from the oche and appeared unsteady on his feet as England's Smith and the referee guided him safely off stage.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
If Bass seemed unsteady in the immediate wake of the fires, she was on more sure footing with ICE.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
Inner-ear problems can also affect balance, and if someone is feeling dizzy or unsteady, they are likely to walk slower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Yet they have to correct for a yearslong decline in employer response rates to BLS surveys—which does not negate the data overall, but certainly makes preliminary calculations a bit more unsteady and speculative.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2026
With every tiptoed step we take, my legs feel more unsteady.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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 room seems unsteadied by von Storch's ambition.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2010
For an instant I thought that excitement had unsteadied me, for my hand, seeking his, seemed to move at random in the vacant air.
From All Men are Ghosts by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks
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
Undoubtedly there was a sinking feeling within her, unsteadying in its way.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
In fact we usually attribute the smallness of his scores to its unsteadying effect.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920 by Various
Their help in discovering and warning against the relationship between the vicious councils and deeds of blood, and their unsteadying influence upon the elements of unrest, can not fail to be of inestimable value.
From Model Speeches for Practise by Grenville Kleiser
