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uneasily

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Recent Examples of uneasily The three of them—Toklas and the two Steins—had lived uneasily together since 1910. 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 See All Example Sentences for uneasily
Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneasily
Adverb
  • Planes getting uncomfortably close in the air and on the ground.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • 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
Adverb
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most of my clients - small and mid-sized business owners - are watching this technology warily.
    Gene Marks, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • 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
  • 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 2 Dec. 2025.

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