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Recent Examples of uneasily
These moments sit uneasily alongside patients the show treats with real feeling, like Louie, an older alcoholic who recurs through the first half of the season and is understood as a familiar presence in the ER.
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
For generations, black has carried associations that sit uneasily alongside a day designed to celebrate love, joy and fresh beginnings.
—Anya Meyerowitz, Glamour, 20 Dec. 2025
The other looks like a country that has swapped global overreach for a tighter, more brittle kind of empire—one that begins at the border and ends, uneasily, in its own streets.
—Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
Like his real-life friend and character Molly, Pacilio also uneasily embarked on his second career at age 55, launching into being an author at a time when the publishing world had undergone many changes.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2025
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Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2026
For generations, black has carried associations that sit uneasily alongside a day designed to celebrate love, joy and fresh beginnings.
—Anya Meyerowitz, Glamour, 20 Dec. 2025
The other looks like a country that has swapped global overreach for a tighter, more brittle kind of empire—one that begins at the border and ends, uneasily, in its own streets.
—Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
Like his real-life friend and character Molly, Pacilio also uneasily embarked on his second career at age 55, launching into being an author at a time when the publishing world had undergone many changes.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneasily
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The film certainly earns its MPA R rating with graphic violence that carries a rather nasty tone at times and can sit a little uncomfortably alongside the film’s comic and family drama elements.—
Richard Kuipers,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2026
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That is where the Broncos sit today, uncomfortably digesting how Sean Payton’s decision to go for it in the second quarter cost Denver a chance to go to its ninth Super Bowl.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
26 Jan. 2026
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Meanwhile, tens of millions of people like you and me were left freezing our credit and anxiously monitoring bank accounts for years.—
Raj Ananthanpillai,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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So for now, Lofland, who plays Cooper Norris, is anxiously awaiting to see what writer and co-creator Taylor Sheridan will dream up for the Norris family.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
21 Jan. 2026
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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
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The New York of the nineteen-eighties was, warily, a city in transition.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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So Tehran is likely eyeing these developments very warily.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
3 Jan. 2026
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This exchange yielded them two critically important pieces of new information.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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Patrick Gary Schlegel, 34, of Sahuarita, was shot and critically injured, according to authorities.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA Today,
28 Jan. 2026
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