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Recent Examples of uncomfortably
Planes getting uncomfortably close in the air and on the ground.
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Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
This is a movie designed to repulse as much attract, and one in which its sheer messiness, its chaos-Muppet energy and its mania gets you uncomfortably close to its unraveling main character’s mindset.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
But when the Chiefs were converting fourth-and-17 in a fourth quarter that became uncomfortably frantic for the Bills, Kansas City's playoff dominance (4-0 in the Mahomes era) came to mind.
—Mike Sando, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Contributor Yelena Moroz Alpert used to always sleep with an arm uncomfortably placed under her pillow to help prop her head up.
—Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2025
His portrayal of a pompous, yapping intellectual who's rotten to the core rings uncomfortably true, as do the performances of Thatcher and East as their characters nonverbally communicate their discomfort to each other.
—Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
The August numbers were already uncomfortably high for the Fed, which is chasing a 2 percent target, and an even higher reading, even if the increase is small, would push them toward greater caution on cutting interest rates further.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
But several districts — including Santa Ana Unified, Buena Park Elementary, Magnolia Elementary, Savanna Elementary, Orange Unified and Huntington Beach Union High — came uncomfortably close, with more than 17% of students chronically absent.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
Nearing a breaking point, Linda’s caseload includes a super-depressed new mother (Danielle Macdonald) while her relationship with her own therapist (a surprisingly serious Conan O’Brien) becomes uncomfortably complicated.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
This is a movie designed to repulse as much attract, and one in which its sheer messiness, its chaos-Muppet energy and its mania gets you uncomfortably close to its unraveling main character’s mindset.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
But when the Chiefs were converting fourth-and-17 in a fourth quarter that became uncomfortably frantic for the Bills, Kansas City's playoff dominance (4-0 in the Mahomes era) came to mind.
—Mike Sando, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
Contributor Yelena Moroz Alpert used to always sleep with an arm uncomfortably placed under her pillow to help prop her head up.
—Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2025
His portrayal of a pompous, yapping intellectual who's rotten to the core rings uncomfortably true, as do the performances of Thatcher and East as their characters nonverbally communicate their discomfort to each other.
—Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
The August numbers were already uncomfortably high for the Fed, which is chasing a 2 percent target, and an even higher reading, even if the increase is small, would push them toward greater caution on cutting interest rates further.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
But several districts — including Santa Ana Unified, Buena Park Elementary, Magnolia Elementary, Savanna Elementary, Orange Unified and Huntington Beach Union High — came uncomfortably close, with more than 17% of students chronically absent.
—Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
Nearing a breaking point, Linda’s caseload includes a super-depressed new mother (Danielle Macdonald) while her relationship with her own therapist (a surprisingly serious Conan O’Brien) becomes uncomfortably complicated.
—Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncomfortably
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Like his real-life friend and character Molly, Pacilio also uneasily embarked on his second career at age 55, launching into being an author at a time when the publishing world had undergone many changes.—
Karen Billing,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Nov. 2025
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Matthiessen’s time with the C.I.A. sits uneasily within his biography.—
Maggie Doherty,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Most recently, airlines were directed to reduce their operations by 10% at 40 airports for two days to reduce air traffic, leaving many passengers frantically searching for alternatives to their travel plans or anxiously awaiting cancellation notifications.—
Essence,
Essence,
10 Nov. 2025
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The magical journey begins at nightfall at the Durango Depot, where travelers anxiously wait for the powerful steam engine to chug around the corner.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Nov. 2025
Adverb
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These ghosts, which take the form of their dead friends, are mostly just goofy, with the shoddy special effects and glowy auras giving the whole thing a distinctly Haunted Mansion vibe; critically, the threat never feels real, which undermines any tension.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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Using strategies to assess each paper for bias, the team rated their confidence in each one as high, moderate, low or critically low.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 Nov. 2025
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“Uncomfortably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncomfortably. Accessed 18 Nov. 2025.
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