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unsteady

[uhn-sted-ee] / ʌnˈstɛd i /


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“I think it’s a really good question,” said George Schultze, founder and CEO of Schultze Asset Management, when asked about the threat that an increasingly unsteady bond market might pose to stocks.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

But the nuclear infrastructure is too battered and the regime too unsteady to sprint for the bomb.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 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

In Guillermo Cienfuegos’ enlivening, if at times unsteady, production at A Noise Within, the role is played by Ann Noble, who forgoes the outdated hunchback but adopts a seething, slithering, perversely seductive aura of menace.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

In fifteen seconds, he was leaping directly toward the two humans in an unsteady canter.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov




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