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Recent Examples of unglued
Slide a piece of twine between the candle and the unglued part of the pipe cleaner.
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Cody Godwin, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
Floor tiles had become unglued in spots.
—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Nov. 2025
The ball slipped cleanly through the net just as time expired, and the arena in Chicago became unglued.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
Creed’s left front side came completely unglued while Poole’s entire right side of his vehicle tore off as well as his right rear tire.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 Apr. 2025
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Cody Godwin, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
Floor tiles had become unglued in spots.
—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Nov. 2025
The ball slipped cleanly through the net just as time expired, and the arena in Chicago became unglued.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
Creed’s left front side came completely unglued while Poole’s entire right side of his vehicle tore off as well as his right rear tire.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unglued
Adjective
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Last month, despite Orbán’s formidable, long-standing attempts to rig the legal and electoral systems in his favor, Magyar won, in a stunning upset.—
Andrew Marantz,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
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Gunther was upset that Rhodes was taking his screen time.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
9 May 2026
Adjective
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Dickinson appeared somewhere between perturbed and seething.—
Phil Thompson,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine, derived from a clothing dye called methylene blue, was first tested on agitated and delusional patients in 1952.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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Trump has long agitated for changes at CNN, and few expect his Justice Department to block the transaction.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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And a disturbed microbiome may contribute to colorectal cancer.—
Yuki Noguchi,
NPR,
27 Apr. 2026
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One of them, a disturbed Army veteran carrying a knife, jumped the fence in 2014 and raced into the White House, making his way into the East Room before heading back down a hallway on the State Floor deep within the mansion.—
Meg Kinnard,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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That is the unhinged (complimentary) premise of Thomas Elrod’s debut, in which the fictional cult-classic epic fantasy Malicarn series is staged on an island with unwitting actors temporarily imprinted with the characters’ backstories.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 May 2026
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Anchored in the universal psychological tensions that underlie not just bad dates but most bad dynamics, Jackie and Michael’s thorny sense of instant codependence eventually prompts each person to deliver their own unhinged monologue.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
1 May 2026
Adjective
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Foster gives a taut performance despite the unstrung absurdities of the plot.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
16 Jan. 2026
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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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But her teacher, typically gregarious, seemed flustered.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
9 May 2026
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The comedy is instead more deadpan, with Rhys playing the flustered straight man against a (sometimes literal) murderer’s row of ensemble members and guest stars.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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At Cal Poly Pomona, director of media relations Cynthia Peters directed students and staff who were worried about being unable to access their course materials as a result of the incident to a Reddit post uploaded by the school’s Bookstore faculty on Thursday.—
Kristy Hutchings,
Daily News,
7 May 2026
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But locals are worried that other companies could move in.—
NPR,
NPR,
7 May 2026
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“Unglued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unglued. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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