unsteady

Example Sentences

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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

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

In Guillermo Cienfuegos’ enlivening, if at times unsteady, production at A Noise Within, the role is played by Ann Noble, who forgoes the outdated hunchback but adopts a seething, slithering, perversely seductive aura of menace.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2026

Clara walked away, unsteady and confused, and Ophie paused on the threshold to Mrs. Caruthers’s room for a moment before she entered.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland