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uneasily

adverb

Definition of uneasilynext
as in uncomfortably

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Recent Examples of uneasily This creator play and this legacy play seem to fit together … uneasily. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2026 This extreme trust sits uneasily against an extreme paranoia about our gadgets. — Nate Anderson, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2026 Anthropic and OpenAI are dancing uneasily with the Pentagon, and neither has come off better for it. — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 May 2026 The chef Hillary Sterling’s cooking is too good for this restaurant’s uneasily generic address, in what is effectively an outdoor mall near Hudson Yards. — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for uneasily
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneasily
  1. uncomfortably
  2. anxiously
  3. apprehensively
  4. warily
  5. critically
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  • Bartholow reported to her superiors at SEIU California that Regan stood uncomfortably close and hovered over her at the bar at a fundraiser for the state Senate leader in San Diego in March as tensions flared over the billionaire tax.
    — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • But inflation has been uncomfortably high since the pandemic and has been creeping higher again this year – a sign of an economy that is running too hot.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of uncomfortably
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  • Nelza Moktan anxiously sought information about her missing cousin, who also worked as a driver in Rasuwa.
    — Victoria Milko, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Instead, he’s spent August anxiously watching the orange skies from his house in the northern Nevada hills through two consecutive and adjacent wild-land fires, the Bug and Hawk Fires.
    — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of anxiously
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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
Definition of apprehensively
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  • There are no clear trigger thresholds for yields that instantly undercut equities, even if equity investors are watching warily.
    — Michael Santoli, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Livestream videos from that night capture people warily approaching the shooting scene.
    — Sydney Brownstone, NPR, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of warily
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  • He was diagnosed with sepsis, blood clots in the lungs, critically low blood pressure, fast heart rate and severe malnutrition.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Most critically, cultivate board-level thinking—focus on governance, long-term value and enterprise risk, not just HR execution.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of critically

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“Uneasily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneasily. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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