unsettle
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Did anything that happened at the end of June unsettle that?
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2026
Still, few things unsettle hikers more than the possibility of a grizzly encounter.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
A five-year outlook does appear to have slipped into 1Q FY 2027, but that’s unlikely to unsettle investors given the strong gold-market backdrop, he adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
These tensions could unsettle production in electric vehicles and defence equipment too, says Naoki Hattori, chief Japan economist at Mizuho.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
He was like a wind that threatened to unsettle everything.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Owens understands that this incongruity between Kirk’s ideology and behavior unsettles people.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
The Barcelona forward's excellent ball control and dribbling skills clearly unsettles defences and pulled the Austrian defenders towards him to create more space for Oyarzabal.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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
The sight of water in the parched desert unsettles your perceptions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
There is an urgency to her that unsettles me, a warning in her words beyond the obvious.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
Saturday will be the more unsettled day of the weekend, generally cool with blustery showers.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The report that unsettled the market was the S&P Global U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026
The unsettled first act, full of false starts, feels like an early draft of the play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Many KMT members and other Taiwanese were unsettled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
In the back of his head, he knew that his reaction was irrational, unjustified, but...but he couldn’t explain to Koffi the way he felt—unmoored, off-kilter, unsettled.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
The Canadian comedian, writer and producer Fielder is famous for harnessing the power of awkwardness, cringe and deadpan wit to great, if unsettling, comedic effect.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
There are so many scary diseases out there that I had to wonder: Is there something about plague that is particularly unsettling?
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
One is the necessity, except in unusual circumstances, to heed precedent, since overturning it can have unsettling consequences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"I find it unsettling that an untransparent algorithm should decide a club's future."
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
I suppose this is expected, but it is also unsettling.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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