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Recent Examples of disturbingly
Perhaps most disturbingly, the research lab’s satellite images have documented activity consistent with the mass burning of human corpses.
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Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2025
Rhys’ Nile is disturbingly intense, yet can’t match the sheer oddity that made Durst both so compelling to watch and so believable as a killer.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
Visits from polar bears were disturbingly common.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
The same studio that produced the Godzilla franchise, Toho, masterminds one of the most horrifying and disturbingly humorous psychedelic films to date.
—Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2025
Some even cross-reference leaked Salesforce data with information from previous breaches to build disturbingly complete profiles of their victims.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Unlike lower-quality deepfakes, many of the Sora videos appear disturbingly realistic and accurately mimic the voices and facial expressions of deceased celebrities.
—Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2025
What this administration — and perhaps more disturbingly, this Federal Communications Commission — has done is to overturn the principle that the FCC’s job was to manage the airwaves, not to manage ideas.
—John Eger, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
McDermott skillfully deploys Valley Girl upspeak to ends both disturbingly perky and just straight disturbing.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 5 Dec. 2025
Rhys’ Nile is disturbingly intense, yet can’t match the sheer oddity that made Durst both so compelling to watch and so believable as a killer.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
Visits from polar bears were disturbingly common.
—Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
The same studio that produced the Godzilla franchise, Toho, masterminds one of the most horrifying and disturbingly humorous psychedelic films to date.
—Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Oct. 2025
Some even cross-reference leaked Salesforce data with information from previous breaches to build disturbingly complete profiles of their victims.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
Unlike lower-quality deepfakes, many of the Sora videos appear disturbingly realistic and accurately mimic the voices and facial expressions of deceased celebrities.
—Senior Reporter, PC Magazine, 2 Oct. 2025
What this administration — and perhaps more disturbingly, this Federal Communications Commission — has done is to overturn the principle that the FCC’s job was to manage the airwaves, not to manage ideas.
—John Eger, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2025
McDermott skillfully deploys Valley Girl upspeak to ends both disturbingly perky and just straight disturbing.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disturbingly
Adverb
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That combination is proving alarmingly effective for cybercriminals.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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Grief gets layered on top of grief and secrets stack sky high as suburban normalcy decays into something at once alarmingly unstable and comfortingly funny.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
19 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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There is a curious absence of any patience in exploring the forces shaping their unsettlingly growing worldview.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
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The book blends reportage, moral inquiry, and political analysis in a way that still feels unsettlingly contemporary fifty-four years after it was published.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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That can be forgiven thanks to the film’s evocative imagery and the emotional resonance of its central themes, distressingly familiar to anyone who has ever lost themselves in a relationship.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
10 Dec. 2025
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Reports of politically motivated violence are distressingly common – ranging from mass shootings, car-ramming attacks and assaults at demonstrations to assassination attempts, kidnappings and threats targeting mayors, governors, political activists and members of Congress.—
Justin Pickett,
The Conversation,
17 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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Free speech has become a major liability in a disgustingly litigious society.—
Jesse Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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These include those who disgustingly celebrated the murder of Brian Thompson and all but beatified his alleged assassin, and those who made light of and mocked the attack on Pelosi’s family and the Minnesota lawmakers.—
Agustina Vergara Cid,
Oc Register,
13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The last two episodes give the first real indications that the show is capable of being smartly tricky with its structure and timeline, rather than just annoyingly evasive.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Dec. 2025
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Tyler’s love for hip-hop as an art form in the purest sense of the word is almost annoyingly well-documented.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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No Diego Luna for Best Actor, no Stellan Skarsgård for Best Supporting Actor, no Elizabeth Dulau for Best Supporting Actress, and, most irritatingly of all, no Genevieve O’Reilly for Best Actress.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
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Sennott and her costars speak with an irritatingly fake affect, are shallower than a puddle in the desert and prize selfishness, indolence and artifice.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
30 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Robby—The Pitt executive producer, writer, director, and star Noah Wyle’s instantly iconic attending physician—is leading his final shift before a three-month leave that sounds like an awfully good idea following his meltdown last season.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
8 Jan. 2026
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However, officials went to the scorer’s table to review the play, which was awfully close.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
7 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The data center industry does not have a terribly good answer for this, except that their 83° sun-synchronous orbit is much less crowded than equatorial ones, meaning a lower risk of collisions.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Jan. 2026
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Polls, however, suggest the bill is not terribly popular with voters, which has left Republicans saying the White House must do a better job of selling it.—
Ryan Mancini,
The Hill,
31 Dec. 2025
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