unsteady
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Posting on social media, Mcallister said Scott, from Elgin, had become unsteady due to his medication and the heat, and did not have his phone or wallet with him.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
In her post, Mcallister said: "He was in a bit of an unsteady state due to medication and heat."
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 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
Without Crick to balance me, I’m unsteady on my feet.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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
And then she turned upon West a face so luminous with pure trust that it all but unsteadied him.
From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby
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
It was a trifle unsteadying even to him.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford
Undoubtedly there was a sinking feeling within her, unsteadying in its way.
From V. V.'s Eyes by Henry Sydnor Harrison
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
