unnerve
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Treacy at Apex sees any change in the Fed’s language around the risk of inflation due to geopolitical conflict as likely to unnerve investors.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 18, 2026
“A conflict like this has the clear potential to unnerve international businesses operating in the Gulf,” said Michael Ratney, who served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia under the Biden administration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 28, 2026
There could be production or sales hiccups that unnerve investors.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
Some investors said that replacing Reeves now could unnerve financial markets.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
For some reason, Leo could unnerve people when he grinned.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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Based in the English city of Bristol, George has an on-the-spectrum manner that unnerves some colleagues, but his record of solving cases is a source of envy on his squad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
A 2006 US embassy cable said he "inspires few but unnerves many".
From Barron's ● Feb. 13, 2026
A feast for the curiosity-starved brain, “Invention” is the kind of revelatory work that inspires and unnerves in equal measure, a distinctly modern masterpiece that maps the rabbit hole in a way only cinema can.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025
But what viewers always focus on are the moments where one candidate has a zinger of a line, or somehow unnerves their opponent, or simply seems more in control.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024
"Look at me, Pod. It unnerves me when you talk to my codpiece, especially when I'm not wearing one. Who is inside my solar?"
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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TD Cowen analyst Robert Moskow said investors have also become unnerved by an expected sales dip for Conagra’s ongoing quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Yet this latest obstacle has truly unnerved him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The local postmaster, a Jacksonian Democrat named Alfred Huger, was unnerved by what he considered inflammatory content and sequestered the abolitionist material, rather than comply with his legal obligation to deliver the mail.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
The dispute has also unnerved diplomats in Argentina, whose economy depends far more on trade with Brazil than Brazil’s does on Argentina.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Kingshaw was unnerved, feeling his own panic coming back.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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They are happy to get away from that city, where they were plagued by unnerving but undescribed events.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
"As a performer he was unparalleled – witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver's crew," it added.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
While the bond-market selloff has been unnerving some investors, it probably doesn’t represent a crisis moment for a stock market that was just getting on its feet after the summer’s chip-driven slump.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
How unnerving that its creation scarred its creator.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026
It was unnerving; Koffi hadn’t heard their entrance, the hut’s flap certainly hadn’t opened, but here they were, at least twenty of them.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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