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unsteadiness



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She isn’t a figure of pity or depravity, just a woman with the unsteadiness of a fawn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The deal comes at a time of deep unsteadiness for the cable industry, as customers are increasingly cutting the cord and moving to streaming video services.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026

It was a year of mass death, fear, trauma, isolation, grief, institutional collapse, uncertainty, desperation—and it created something of an overall unsteadiness, a loss of sense of time and purpose and reality.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2024

The music at first blush can seem genially nostalgic — until you open your ears to its jolting unsteadiness and darker ambiguities.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2022

Ben licks his lips and I can feel unsteadiness in his Noise and hunger and grief at what he’s already imagining is our next parting.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness


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