unsteady
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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
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
I did not like to see my strong Togbe unsteady on his feet like that.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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
And then she turned upon West a face so luminous with pure trust that it all but unsteadied him.
From Queed by Crosby, Raymond Moreau
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
To Roy she had never seemed more charming; and his own abrupt volte-face was unsteadying, to say the least of it.
From Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Diver, Maud
It was a trifle unsteadying even to him.
From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram
Perhaps the strain on the poor doctor’s nerves was unsteadying him by this time: he may not have seen right; but he seemed to see only one name, as if compounded from the former two.
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
