unsteady
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The talks also come at an unsteady time for the world's second-largest economy, which has struggled to address persistently sluggish domestic spending and a protracted crisis in the crucial property sector.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
Any influence Laura Overdeck gains at Two Sigma could upset the delicate and unsteady power arrangement between the firm’s founders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The 37-year-old got back to his feet but looked unsteady and referee Mike Beltran waved off the contest as he stumbled.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 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
Once he’s gone I pace, tiny steps that cover my tiny room, but my steps feel unsteady so I move to sitting on my bed.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
From oil prices to regional alliances, the six-month-old conflict has defied expectations and unsteadied the global balance of power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
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 shock of the narrow escape we had just had seemed to have unsteadied the nerve of our brave Panhard for the moment.
From My Friend the Chauffeur by Frederic Lowenheim
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
Their help in discovering and warning against the relationship between the vicious councils and deeds of blood, and their unsteadying influence upon the elements of unrest, can not fail to be of inestimable value.
From Model Speeches for Practise by Grenville Kleiser
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 going to be more unsteadying than she had foreseen.
From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver
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