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Recent Examples of disturbingly
The road to that disturbingly phallic Jules Rimet trophy inevitably goes through Spain, France, England, Belgium, Portugal, Croatia, Germany, and a bunch of others.
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Filip Bondy,
New York Daily News,
10 June 2026
Henry is a very tough movie, built on disturbingly casual violence and a characterization of the title character that is uniquely bleak even by horror standards.
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Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 June 2026
Death threats directed toward athletes have become disturbingly frequent.
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Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
Olof is disturbingly sane, but there is not a sentimental bone in his body.
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Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 May 2026
Indeed, the most recent exchanges of fire have demonstrated just how disturbingly successful Hezbollah has been in rebuilding its capabilities.
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Hussein Ibish,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
Trump has been disturbingly clear that this isn’t about creating better elections.
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Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
27 Mar. 2026
Lonely young men on the internet, gun culture, school shootings and a need to be seen are themes colliding in Oscar Boyson‘s disturbingly twisted feature film debut Our Hero, which might just be a little too real to be a comfortable watch for many.
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Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
25 Mar. 2026
The Leafs were disturbingly lifeless early against the Senators and nothing happened.
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Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
1 Mar. 2026
Filip Bondy,
New York Daily News,
10 June 2026
Henry is a very tough movie, built on disturbingly casual violence and a characterization of the title character that is uniquely bleak even by horror standards.
—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 June 2026
Death threats directed toward athletes have become disturbingly frequent.
—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
1 June 2026
Olof is disturbingly sane, but there is not a sentimental bone in his body.
—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 May 2026
Indeed, the most recent exchanges of fire have demonstrated just how disturbingly successful Hezbollah has been in rebuilding its capabilities.
—
Hussein Ibish,
The Atlantic,
23 Apr. 2026
Trump has been disturbingly clear that this isn’t about creating better elections.
—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
27 Mar. 2026
Lonely young men on the internet, gun culture, school shootings and a need to be seen are themes colliding in Oscar Boyson‘s disturbingly twisted feature film debut Our Hero, which might just be a little too real to be a comfortable watch for many.
—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
25 Mar. 2026
The Leafs were disturbingly lifeless early against the Senators and nothing happened.
—
Jonas Siegel,
New York Times,
1 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disturbingly
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Public trust in medicine and science is alarmingly low, a persistent issue highlighted at Aspen Ideas Health and by the Edelman Trust Barometer, now exacerbated by social media.
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And, most alarmingly, Nick’s home doesn’t belong to him — and his wife and daughter aren’t there.
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The Marriage Bed by Tommy Hays After a heated argument with his wife Betsy, Asheville, North Carolina, poetry professor Asa Flowers spends his first night apart from her in decades, only to wake to a world quietly and unsettlingly changed.
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Griffin’s blue eyes are unsettlingly bright.
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The event was halted after an hour due to fears about her safety, which distressingly encapsulates a tension that the trans Mayan artist has navigated for years.
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The basic themes of Hearst’s life and the novels that dramatize it remain distressingly relevant.
Adverb
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High-level players will basically always be in a drift—even during straightaways—to seize every opportunity to boost, just like people who were disgustingly good at Mario Kart DS back in the day.
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The next morning, Park awakes hung over before disgustingly scoffing down a handful of salmon off a caterer's serving tray.
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Sandeep is nothing loath to make trouble for his annoyingly precocious little sister.
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Unfortunately and annoyingly, sometimes sayings like that are repeated so much for a reason.
Adverb
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Such politicians viewed literature as subversive, irritatingly highbrow, and—like socialism—suspiciously European.
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Aaron, with divine intervention, turns the dust of the land into gnats that irritatingly cover humans and animals throughout Egypt.
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The catastrophies that our heroine averts are awfully small potatoes — a bulldozer running amok, an amusement park ride speeding out of control, some prankish teenagers scheming to turn the girl’s shower into a steambath.
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The range-topping version of the company’s flagship SUV looks awfully similar to the Ferrari Purosangue and features a dual-motor powertrain that makes 990 hp.
Adverb
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Wonderfully and terribly, everything does happen for Maddie after her adoring bear of a husband, Jake (Eric Rahill), makes a cooking video of her that goes massively viral.
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Perhaps the biggest problem with this movie is that Supergirl (Helen Slater) seems terribly leisurely about her fateful mission.
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