unsettling

"Adults might laugh and say, 'Why stress over something like that?' But for us, with such an important test ahead, it can feel unsettling."

That’s because the other thing climate change is doing is unsettling the jet stream: the river of air that undulates across the Northern Hemisphere and brings rain and storms from west to east in predictable waves throughout the year.

They pointed to employees who they said had been laid off without clear reasons and unsettling remarks by their then-incoming chief executive George Arison in support of conservative figures who had made bigoted remarks about transgender people.

The character is a funny, if unsettling, mirror who at times — like Archie Bunker before him — earns a degree of empathy.

She led the city through a challenging period that includes the unsettling early spread of COVID-19 and the subsequent exodus of scores of downtown tech workers who, amid pandemic-related shutdowns, found themselves able to work remotely — and more cheaply — from other cities.