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Verb
Not by trying to smooth out this unbalance, or trying to fish for quotas or whatnot. Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 12 July 2024 Its automatic unbalance detection helps to minimize vibration during operation, and each cycle takes between 20 to 50 minutes. Camryn Rabideau, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2023
Noun
Hawkins’s performance as a woman who was destroyed by the death of her daughter, more so than anyone around her seems to realize, both powers and unbalances the film. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 30 May 2025 Mbappe’s arrival also unbalanced the attack, with Ancelotti struggling to find a way to fit the France forward into the side, leading to slumps in form for Bellingham, Vinicius Jr and Rodrygo. Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 30 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for unbalance
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbalance
Verb
  • Vic and Cali hadn’t wanted a wedding, but this had disturbed Vic’s parents.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Two players take on the roles of a brother and sister who are searching for their missing buddies on an island inhabited by some rather disturbing monsters.
    Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These include celiac disease, pelvic floor dysfunction, irritable bowel syndrome, hormonal imbalances such as hypothyroidism, metabolic disorders like diabetes, neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease or even certain cancers.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • What’s frustrating is that while Tom and Robbie’s dance of evasion and investigation gets more predictable, the series’ performances get richer, so Task teeter-totters on an imbalance of story and ensemble.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The acting didn’t bother me, but the directing did.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
  • If the odds of winning the lottery are so low, why do people bother playing?
    Charles Trepany, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • So much of it is in disequilibrium, riddled by heat, pressure, and chemicals trying to get from their current location to somewhere else.
    Robin George Andrews, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Researchers also see empathic disequilibrium as a possibility for some people.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
Verb
  • That will distract any views of the neighbors’ patios or houses that might linger until the shrubs fill in.
    Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Some medications can help distract the brain, and those are usually tried first.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • And Kiritsis, as Skarsgård plays him (with a jittery but logical fast-talk fervor that makes this one of the actor’s two or three most potent performances), is a very different figure than the real Tony Kiritisis, who was older and more visibly deranged.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Fans are even speculating that Swift may drop the first single from her upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl, in the series finale—which seems deranged, but weirder things have happened.
    Olivia Petter, Vogue, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This decision could confuse your friends.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The season ended with the two attending a sleepover at Cody's house after his mom confused Beavis and Butt-Head with her son's friends.
    Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The media frenzy about GLP-1 agonists hadn't yet started.
    Mara Gordon, NPR, 24 Apr. 2025
  • During the media frenzy the then-21-year-old held a press conference, delivering a heartfelt resignation speech.
    Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024

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