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Recent Examples of disquietude Its responses are syrupy, its handling is unremarkable, and its odd brake pedal feel creates a sense of disquietude. Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 26 Apr. 2023 The group’s songs, all dance grooves, pulsing bass lines and ’80s-tinged synths, have typically reeked of disquietude and served as a maze into Healy’s brilliant but occasionally self-indulgent mind. Dan Hyman, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022 The fight for women’s rights, war, and the environment are dominating the headlines and the best collections reacted to this state of disquietude in a number of ways. Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2022 Three years on, the Astrova screen reignites the conversation around cameras on airplanes, but Panasonic hopes the on-off switch will resolve any disquietude. Francesca Street, CNN, 15 July 2022 Last February, in the throes of early-pandemic disquietude, Ms. Jimenez was inspired to emulate that retreat’s comfort, if not its aesthetic. Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2020 Among Oregon artists today, the coronavirus pandemic evokes language ringing with cold disquietude: Anxious. oregonlive, 25 Mar. 2020 The novel shifts into a minor key of doomy disquietude as events unfold. Katharine Weber, New York Times, 1 June 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disquietude
Noun
  • After a den of thieves ransacked a rural Northern California home so many times that the owner fled in fear, the property fell into even wilder hands: a group of bears, authorities said.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
  • The fear, in fact, is that our continual need to standardize will modernize ourselves out of existence.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Your husband’s anxiety just makes her puppet strings easier to pull.
    Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 5 July 2025
  • But Democratic pollster John Zogby said many of the wins came at the sacrifice of some and that anxiety in America is higher than ever.
    Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • Trump's business assets are held by the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, which is controlled by his son, Donald Trump Jr., but government watchdog groups have nonetheless expressed concern about how Trump may be using his position as president to generate personal profits.
    Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 1 July 2025
  • Senate Republicans also added a $25 billion fund to help rural hospitals after some GOP senators expressed concern about how they could be affected by the change to provider taxes.
    July 1, CBS News, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • The fact Ishiba’s LDP faces an election on July 20 only heightens the BOJ’s worries about the political establishment striking back.
    William Pesek, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • But plenty of Republicans have expressed worries about the provision as well, imperiling its passage.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • However, there is unease in the market about supply exceeding demand from 2027 onward, and a potential glut that could persist to the end of the decade dragging prices lower.
    Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
  • There is a certain unease that settles over a place when a familiar landmark begins to dissolve.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025

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“Disquietude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disquietude. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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