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uneasy

[uhn-ee-zee] / ʌnˈi zi /


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“An uneasy calm has spread over the market,” says Kildow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

But they still want us to keep using their products, even if we are more uneasy about their safety.

From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026

That is the uneasy promise of privately controlled public space: It looks open to everyone, but access ultimately depends on the owner’s discretion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Once described as a perpetual prime minister-in-waiting, he finally got the top job in 2022, but only by forming an uneasy coalition with his one-time adversaries UMNO.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Still, the uneasy feeling does not leave me.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

But Mr. Sebastian sounded uneasier about Mr. Trump, despite having hoped for the best after his election.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2018

Yet fiction seems to have an uneasier relationship with influence than other art forms.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2018

But Phil Young, a 27-year veteran of the Army and Marine Corps, walking alongside Mr. Pierson, was uneasier about the Republican nominee, sharing reservations that underscore the roadblocks confronting Mr. Trump.

From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2016

They enjoy being scared, but become uneasier by the degree to which they can place themselves in a drama.

From Time Magazine Archive

I felt provoked and angry about that boy, and the more I thought of him, of his being a stranger and all, the uneasier I got.

From The Last Stroke a detective story by Lawrence L. Lynch

Mahershala Ali’s win for Supporting Actor, for his role in “Green Book,” was one of the uneasiest moments of the night.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2019

Then into the strangest, uneasiest song REM had to date recorded, with Stipe flashing in and out of focus as the lights flickered around the band.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2012

A beaming Harry, 20, who was said to be the uneasiest about his relationship with his new stepmom, was first to wave back.

From Time Magazine Archive

They was the uneasiest people you ever see.

From Old Caravan Days by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

When they had finished Edna offered to show Judge Trent a shady hammock where breezes were warranted to lull all but the uneasiest conscience to rest.

From The Opened Shutters by Clara Louise Burnham


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