unsteady
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With Itauma barely able to stand, his legs unsteady and body swaying before slumping in the corner, his team threw in the towel.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
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
“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
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
As Jonathan scrambled across the unsteady ground, he clenched his teeth, bracing himself for the impact.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
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 I believed that I was dealing with an unsteadied boy who needed the sharp tonic of work and danger—ah, Corrie, forgive me!—instead of the strongest man in endurance I ever knew.
From From the Car Behind by James Montgomery Flagg
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
Her manner, which was not conciliatory, had, also, an unsteadying effect on him.
From The Gold Trail by Harold Bindloss
