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Recent Examples of uncomfortably
Summers can be uncomfortably hot.
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Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Real-life bankers have weighed in, with some finding the show uncomfortably close to their own observations, while others note that certain aspects, like the depiction of drug use, are exaggerated for dramatic effect.
—Maddie Garfinkle, PEOPLE, 18 Jan. 2026
Packing a cozy portable blanket Air conditioning can make terminals uncomfortably cold, especially if your flight is delayed for hours.
—Julie Rousseau, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2026
His warning remains uncomfortably relevant today.
—David Williamson, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2026
The strategy has worked—the film is doing well at the box office—but Chalamet’s energy has vibed uncomfortably with the fusty atmosphere of awards-season campaigning, where glad-handing with showbiz retirees and eating rubber chicken at galas is still very much the norm.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2026
Aside from technical glitches, there was uncomfortably dead air and forced improv.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
What once read as moral conviction can, from another angle, start to look uncomfortably like a savior complex.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
The film blends satire, excess and immigrant ambition into something that feels both absurd and uncomfortably familiar.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 5 Jan. 2026
Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
Real-life bankers have weighed in, with some finding the show uncomfortably close to their own observations, while others note that certain aspects, like the depiction of drug use, are exaggerated for dramatic effect.
—Maddie Garfinkle, PEOPLE, 18 Jan. 2026
Packing a cozy portable blanket Air conditioning can make terminals uncomfortably cold, especially if your flight is delayed for hours.
—Julie Rousseau, Travel + Leisure, 17 Jan. 2026
His warning remains uncomfortably relevant today.
—David Williamson, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 Jan. 2026
The strategy has worked—the film is doing well at the box office—but Chalamet’s energy has vibed uncomfortably with the fusty atmosphere of awards-season campaigning, where glad-handing with showbiz retirees and eating rubber chicken at galas is still very much the norm.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2026
Aside from technical glitches, there was uncomfortably dead air and forced improv.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2026
What once read as moral conviction can, from another angle, start to look uncomfortably like a savior complex.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
The film blends satire, excess and immigrant ambition into something that feels both absurd and uncomfortably familiar.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 5 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uncomfortably
Adverb
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Both sit uneasily in a politics that treats freedom as self-executing.—
Philip Martin,
Washington Post,
7 Jan. 2026
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John of John, Stuart’s third novel, follows a closeted young art student returning to his childhood home in Scotland’s Hebrides islands, where his unwell grandmother and conservative lay preacher father live uneasily under the same roof.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
Adverb
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The majority of these applicants are anxiously hoping for immediate relief from creditors and debt collectors or asking for funds for urgent care and essential needs.—
Richard Lane,
Des Moines Register,
18 Jan. 2026
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As about 80 community members looked on anxiously, the school board passed the cuts by a margin of 5 to 1 to 1, with Irene Kendrick voting against the proposal and Clifford Ragan III abstaining.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
16 Jan. 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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That shift gives us resilience and, critically, compute certainty.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
20 Jan. 2026
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One species, the European hamster, is critically endangered.—
Noel Kirkpatrick,
Treehugger,
20 Jan. 2026
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“Uncomfortably.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uncomfortably. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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