as in concern
an uneasy state of mind usually over the possibility of an anticipated misfortune or trouble
although we'd been assured that everything would be fine, we couldn't shake our feeling of unease
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Recent Examples of unease
But each story adds to the uncertainty and unease in the air.
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Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
Yet even as stocks climb, trillions of dollars are being parked in money-market funds—a sign of investor unease.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
Yet amid the gains, there’s a growing unease.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
Unlike past contests, this vote has unfolded against a backdrop of deep sociopolitical unease and visible youth engagement.
—Amindeh Blaise Atabong, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
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Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
Yet even as stocks climb, trillions of dollars are being parked in money-market funds—a sign of investor unease.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 28 Oct. 2025
Yet amid the gains, there’s a growing unease.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2025
Unlike past contests, this vote has unfolded against a backdrop of deep sociopolitical unease and visible youth engagement.
—Amindeh Blaise Atabong, semafor.com, 27 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unease
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unease
Noun
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously opposed the bill, citing concerns over potential retaliation against Israeli hostages held in Gaza.—
Tal Shalev,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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Addressing environmental and material concerns While perovskite materials are relatively affordable, their use of rare elements and lead raises environmental concerns.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
11 Nov. 2025
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Cotton argued the shutdown’s cause was not the expiring health care subsidies, but rather Democrats’ fear of blowback from their supporters.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Nov. 2025
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Iran is facing its worst drought in decades, raising fears of evacuations in Tehran while threatening the regime’s stability and nuclear ambitions, according to a leading environmental expert.—
Emma Bussey,
FOXNews.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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The attendees—thirty- and forty-somethings who are members of the bank’s Private Wealth Management (PWM) division, which boasts an average account size of over $75 million—gathered to hash out their anxiety and excitement.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
9 Nov. 2025
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Barton will have to wait another month to receive his sentence for the six guilty counts the jury returned on charges of sending a grossly offensive electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety to football broadcasters Eni Aluko and Lucy Ward, and TV and radio host Jeremy Vine.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Meanwhile Syria remains scarred by years of conflict and nationals in Germany are looking on at the debate with mounting worry.—
Sophie Tanno,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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Leaders at big carmakers spelled out their worries in the latest round of earnings calls, saying that finding a replacement for Nexperia at scale in the short term will be difficult.—
Boston Herald Wire Services,
Boston Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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At the same time, word about the uneasiness within the United States' scientific community had spread worldwide, and many Goddard scientists and engineers began receiving recruitment emails from European research institutions.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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Or, perhaps, there is the uneasiness surrounding fiction itself, how inert marks can so fully imitate life, like the blush on a body’s cheek, until there is uncertainty around what is real and what is fake, what is alive and what is dead.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
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