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unsteadily

ADVERB
unevenly
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I have in my head an image of my own mother, nearing 90, who moves unsteadily, even with her walker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2025

A video aired on Arab TV showed Father Gabriel walking unsteadily and checking on a man on a stretcher at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, where those injured are being treated.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2025

“Kill Move Paradise” moves unsteadily as a stage poem, though there’s clearly more at stake than artistic finesse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2024

On Wednesday morning one crewman carried an umbrella up the gangway that the migrants unsteadily walked down last week, some of them met by stretchers and health workers with foil blankets.

From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2023

She didn’t actually want to marry Misha, but Nava’s assertion that Anya wasn’t good enough to marry him sat unsteadily inside her, poking her with sharp edges.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack




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