as in uneasily
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Recent Examples of uncomfortably
Leaning uncomfortably hard on Brandin Podziemski and De’Anthony Melton.
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Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
In Dubai, for example, residential islands have become a refuge from a mainland where the exploitation of foreign workers is uncomfortably visible.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 14 Apr. 2026
And on the Fed front, the clock is ticking uncomfortably.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026
Finding the perpetrators would take months and raise questions that hit uncomfortably close to home—not only the Kirkeby’s home, but also mine.
—Jennifer Cannon, Vanity Fair, 7 Apr. 2026
Victor Glover, the pilot, reported that the spacecraft was uncomfortably cold, and donned a knit cap.
—David W. Brown, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Third place would leave him uncomfortably close to the bubble, likely needing some defections.
—Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
When his administration took office, a wave of radical changes arrived at once, reshaping the national conversation about war in ways that felt uncomfortably close to home because my husband was recently deployed.
—Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2026
The mission, which flew astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the International Space Station in June 2024, came uncomfortably close to catastrophe.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2026
In Dubai, for example, residential islands have become a refuge from a mainland where the exploitation of foreign workers is uncomfortably visible.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 14 Apr. 2026
And on the Fed front, the clock is ticking uncomfortably.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 14 Apr. 2026
Finding the perpetrators would take months and raise questions that hit uncomfortably close to home—not only the Kirkeby’s home, but also mine.
—Jennifer Cannon, Vanity Fair, 7 Apr. 2026
Victor Glover, the pilot, reported that the spacecraft was uncomfortably cold, and donned a knit cap.
—David W. Brown, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
Third place would leave him uncomfortably close to the bubble, likely needing some defections.
—Jay Posner, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2026
When his administration took office, a wave of radical changes arrived at once, reshaping the national conversation about war in ways that felt uncomfortably close to home because my husband was recently deployed.
—Letters To The Editor, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2026
The mission, which flew astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams to the International Space Station in June 2024, came uncomfortably close to catastrophe.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncomfortably
Adverb
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Businesses operate in an environment where formal and informal systems coexist uneasily.—
Oscar de la Rosa,
Boston Herald,
3 Apr. 2026
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An uneasy balance The concentration of power around one figure sits uneasily with one of the founding impulses of the 1979 revolution that ushered in the Islamic Republic.—
Roxane Razavi,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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The Angels are anxiously awaiting Yates’ season debut.—
Doug Padilla,
Oc Register,
19 Apr. 2026
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In the new footage, shown during Disney’s presentation on Thursday, Bonnie is gifted Lilypad and immediately gets sucked in, spending all her hours on it day and night, as the toys anxiously look on.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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This show of sweetness fighting back against a sense of hopelessness builds an apprehensively brighter perspective than earlier work.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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But police say security camera footage showed the car was not moving when 32-year-old Samuel Saint Remy fired into the passenger side 15 times, critically wounding the driver.—
Updated April 20,
Miami Herald,
20 Apr. 2026
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Investigators say last month's explosion, which critically injured a woman, was caused by a natural gas leak.—
Brian New,
CBS News,
20 Apr. 2026
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“Uncomfortably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncomfortably. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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