unsteady
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While leading the game 2-1, Scotland's Menzies stepped away from the oche and appeared unsteady on his feet as England's Smith and the referee guided him safely off stage.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
If Bass seemed unsteady in the immediate wake of the fires, she was on more sure footing with ICE.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
“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
She trod along the unsteady ground, trying to move as soundlessly as possible.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
The challenge will be not getting unsteadied by meticulously curated opposing pitching plans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
I breathed out, took my foot off the gas, and the car quivered, unsteadied.
From The Verge ● Feb. 9, 2016
At the same time, he knows what it’s like to be unsteadied by professional disappointment – and, worse, to be toppled, outright, by personal tragedy.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2015
The room seems unsteadied by von Storch's ambition.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 27, 2010
A whirlwind of dust and leaves marked his course, and through it I fired, unsteadied by excitement and hardly able to see.
From Jock of the Bushveld by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
Volckmer has said the subheading was kept off the cover “as a surprise” – making it the first of many unsteadying gear shifts in a monologue that sets out to unsettle.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2020
It is deeply unsteadying to ponder the possibility that Riefenstahl might have been both a considerable artist and a considerable Nazi.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015
In fact we usually attribute the smallness of his scores to its unsteadying effect.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920 by Various
A rush of those very sensations at which she had so often gently mocked swept through her consciousness, unsteadying and bewildering her.
From The Wicked Marquis by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
It was a trifle unsteadying even to him.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford
