disconcert
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Djokovic's on-court aura can disconcert many younger opponents and Alexander Zverev, often described as the best player of his generation to have never won a major, is one of them.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
In Twin Peaks “they tend to disconcert us because there is something ‘off’ about them.”
From The Guardian • Apr. 8, 2020
“Not a smile. It’s not the smile that will disconcert me. Not at all. Or his eyes that will make me afraid. Because I’m not afraid of him.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2017
The poem's athletic feats of wit may entertain readers, or disconcert them, but it has a purpose beyond rhetoric: it is an act of mourning ... and, maybe, an act of self-heartening, too.
From Slate • Dec. 11, 2012
He didn’t like it, so he thought he’d disconcert her.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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