unsteady
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Aigul Khismatullina, Queen of the Night, impresses with the silvery pricks of her high notes, while Kwangchul Youn’s Sarastro, unsteady in middle register, takes on weight at the bottom of his bass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
Inner-ear problems can also affect balance, and if someone is feeling dizzy or unsteady, they are likely to walk slower.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 2026
Yet they have to correct for a yearslong decline in employer response rates to BLS surveys—which does not negate the data overall, but certainly makes preliminary calculations a bit more unsteady and speculative.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2026
So why haven’t these headlines done more to calm an unsteady global oil market?
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 2026
For such small, unsteady organisms, the babies sure could get away from you fast.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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 queer premonition of trouble for a moment unsteadied her.
From The Pawns Count by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
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 not more contemptuous, nor less; but something about it was unsteadying.
From Red Fleece by Comfort, Will Levington
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 Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
Now she looked at him rather quizzically, though her young eyes reflected something of his own unsteadying embarrassment.
From Captivating Mary Carstairs by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
