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Recent Examples of unglued
Then the Minnesota Twins bullpen came completely unglued, and Trayce Thompson took full advantage.
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 8 Mar. 2025
Reid came a little unglued emotionally late in the fourth and needed to be subbed out briefly to cool down, so none of the three bigs were cloaked in glory on Monday.
—Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Last week there were plenty of fist pumps following seven strikeouts in three innings against the Kansas City Royals in a start that became unglued with an array of bad sliders in the fourth and prompted some of his opponents to point out on social media about celebrating too early.
—Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
This is why the guidelines seem unglued from how screens are used in most families.
—Kendra Thomas, TIME, 5 June 2024
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Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 8 Mar. 2025
Reid came a little unglued emotionally late in the fourth and needed to be subbed out briefly to cool down, so none of the three bigs were cloaked in glory on Monday.
—Jon Krawczynski, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
Last week there were plenty of fist pumps following seven strikeouts in three innings against the Kansas City Royals in a start that became unglued with an array of bad sliders in the fourth and prompted some of his opponents to point out on social media about celebrating too early.
—Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
This is why the guidelines seem unglued from how screens are used in most families.
—Kendra Thomas, TIME, 5 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unglued
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Mamdani's win was seen as an upset to the establishment, since the 67-year-old Cuomo is the son of a three-time New York governor and held the position himself for a decade beginning in 2011.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
5 Nov. 2025
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Boise State fans could have been upset when they were upset at home by Fresno State as their season continued to slide away from them.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Dickinson appeared somewhere between perturbed and seething.—
Phil Thompson,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
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Locked away in an old house in Montana, her increasingly agitated and erratic behavior leaves her companion, Jackson, played by Pattinson, worried and helpless.—
Karla Rodriguez,
Footwear News,
3 Nov. 2025
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In this effective, no-nonsense chiller, a couple – one with an escalating form of parasomnia (a sleep disturbance that leads to fugue-like sleep walking) – seek and don’t get some R&R together and wind up arguing more and getting more agitated as freaky things start to happen.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
24 Oct. 2025
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However, deteriorating or disturbed lead paint — through sanding or stripping — can create toxic dust that poses serious health hazards, particularly to children.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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Actors dressed as sadistic guards and disturbed prisoners, jump-scaring visitors from the prison cells.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
26 Oct. 2025
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In his nitpicking and narcissism, the relatability of his grievances and his unhinged methods of redressing them, Ron also resembles a younger, Middle American version of Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm antihero.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
30 Oct. 2025
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Once the adventure goes topside, Hamill’s live-action pirate is almost a disappointment after all the unhinged undersea hijinks.—
Justin Lowe,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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When the Premier Lacrosse League’s Boston Cannons opened training camp back in May with unstrung lacrosse stick heads, players knew who to ask for an assist.—
Eric Jackson,
Sportico.com,
22 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Sharon must have been too flustered to think clearly — surely burning the scrubs would have been a better method?—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Opposing teams will try to get into his head to gain an advantage from the flustered safety.—
Jordan Sigler,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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Residents of Cranbourne Hall Residential Park, the nearest neighborhood, are worried that the new home will be less private than the four-bedroom Adelaide Cottage.—
Christina Dugan Ramirez,
FOXNews.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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Haseebullah also is worried about the Cybertrucks’ surveillance abilities that the public may not be unaware of, and that the fleet might give Tesla access to police data.—
Sasha Rogelberg,
Fortune,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Unglued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unglued. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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