as in disturbed
to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy
despite his career success, he has been distempered by nagging feelings of inadequacy his whole life
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Staffieri was appropriately shocked and disturbed by both the antisemitic display and the breach of internal protocol.—
Marsha Sutton,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
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The plot was inspired by a Japanese news report that had deeply disturbed Woo, about a lunatic guilty of poisoning baby formula.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
19 Oct. 2025
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This 32-foot-tall sculpture with flaming red eyes has alarmed travelers for decades, but the story of its creation is even more chilling.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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The report quickly circulated on social media and even alarmed some basketball fans.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
22 Oct. 2025
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Animals at this time are moving for migration, and they’re distracted by breeding and hunting season.—
Owen Clarke,
Outside,
20 Oct. 2025
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Cramer said the rally was foreseeable, but many investors were distracted by persistent negativity.—
Luke Fountain,
CNBC,
20 Oct. 2025
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Berwald isn't alone in being bothered by misbehaving kids at breweries.—
Jordyn Noennig,
jsonline.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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Lehrer — who has maintained his innocence to Rolling Stone claimed he wasn’t bothered by the road ordeal — has been locked away in Dominica State Prison for over two years now.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
26 Oct. 2025
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Moreover, economists and policy advisors are concerned by the approach politicians have taken to national debt, saying Washington is not pulling back its spending enough to begin rebalancing the books.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
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Stop being a people-pleaser, particularly where your offspring is concerned.—
Abigail Van Buren,
Boston Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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In Michigan, where nearly 13% of households receive SNAP benefits, news of the pause had families, from Detroit to Interlochen, preparing to go to food pantries and worried about what's to come.—
Nushrat Rahman,
Freep.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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However, reports about how the university has controlled the use of that money has worried some alumni.—
Cate Charron,
IndyStar,
27 Oct. 2025
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According to Albert Speer’s Inside the Third Reich, Hitler was agitated by Owens’s four-gold-medal performance, and declared that Black athletes were jungle primitives who should be excluded from future competitions.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
27 Oct. 2025
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Case in point was the second period, when Hartman agitated Gudbranson on a potentially game-swinging penalty.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2025
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My father walked outside into the spring sunshine, elated and unsettled.—
Nicholas Thompson,
The Atlantic,
23 Oct. 2025
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Even after trading away veteran starting quarterback Joe Flacco, the Cleveland Browns' QB room remains largely unsettled.—
Rowan Fisher-Shotton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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