as in uncomfortably
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Recent Examples of uneasily
The three of them—Toklas and the two Steins—had lived uneasily together since 1910.
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Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Elsewhere, characters wield whatever power race gives them—however uneasily.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
For decades, the industry has thrived—sometimes barely survived—in a paradoxical environment where state-level legality danced uneasily with federal prohibition.
—Robert Hoban, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Why do those premises sit together uneasily?
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
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Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Elsewhere, characters wield whatever power race gives them—however uneasily.
—Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2025
For decades, the industry has thrived—sometimes barely survived—in a paradoxical environment where state-level legality danced uneasily with federal prohibition.
—Robert Hoban, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Why do those premises sit together uneasily?
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneasily
Adverb
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Planes getting uncomfortably close in the air and on the ground.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
7 Nov. 2025
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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
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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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Mamdani, often viewed warily by business leaders, has been quietly working to ease concerns about his progressive platform, with mixed success.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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Most of my clients - small and mid-sized business owners - are watching this technology warily.—
Gene Marks,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 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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“Uneasily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneasily. Accessed 23 Dec. 2025.
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