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as in to disturb
to cause to go insane or as if insane
the endless harassment by the guards completely unhinged the prisoners of war
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as in to distract
to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy
I was momentarily unhinged by the unexpected question
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Recent Examples of unhinge
The cakes people bake using her tutorial have been delightfully unhinged.
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Deena Prichep, NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
The locus of energy in My Lover, the Rabbi is not plot but comical, unhinged prose and extensive, psychoanalytic character readings.
—Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
Schellekens shrieks—set to a hurricane of layered guitars and unhinged drumming.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 18 Mar. 2026
Audiences got an ample serving of Forbidden Fruits during the movie’s SXSW world premiere on Monday, marking director Meredith Alloway‘s unhinged camp feature debut.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2026
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Deena Prichep, NPR, 4 Apr. 2026
The locus of energy in My Lover, the Rabbi is not plot but comical, unhinged prose and extensive, psychoanalytic character readings.
—Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
Schellekens shrieks—set to a hurricane of layered guitars and unhinged drumming.
—Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 18 Mar. 2026
Audiences got an ample serving of Forbidden Fruits during the movie’s SXSW world premiere on Monday, marking director Meredith Alloway‘s unhinged camp feature debut.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 17 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unhinge
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Ty Segall exemplifies the modern indie rock experimentalist, constantly trying out new styles and attitudes and usually landing on some intense neopsychedelic sounds that can both comfort and disturb.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
25 Apr. 2026
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The worms thrash and move erratically with a snake-like motion that disturbs the topsoil.—
Maria Braganini,
CBS News,
25 Apr. 2026
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This white chocolate bar is creamy and ultra-sweet, and the great minds at TJ’s were smart to distract from the one-note flavor with crunchy little cookie crumbles.—
Alex Beggs,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
25 Apr. 2026
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The curators supply a historical backdrop, therefore, but discreetly, and without distracting us from Wright’s poetic originality.—
Julian Bell,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Even some of the basics are still unsettled.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2026
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The result is a category of entertainment that’s commercially viable, but still creatively unsettled.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
20 Apr. 2026
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With Minnesota viewing them as soft, the Nuggets hardly seem bothered by the criticism.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2026
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Fuqua and Logan can’t be bothered to figure it out.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2026
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Only sick, demented, or deranged people in the House or Senate could vote against THE SAVE AMERICA ACT.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2026
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For all their faults, looksmaxxers are intent on de-fetishizing this particular commodity, revealing beauty to be the product of strenuous (and often deranging) labor.—
Becca Rothfeld,
New Yorker,
7 Mar. 2026
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That worries Thomas Johnson, a Black voter in New Orleans who was at the state Capitol to lobby on unrelated legislation Wednesday when the Supreme Court ruling came down.—
Nicholas Riccardi,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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When Arakas was arrested, Bon neww worried that the police might have accessed the Estonian’s BlackBerry.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
30 Apr. 2026
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The trouble was that this stance unbalanced him at home.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2026
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Imagine the wartime use of leaflets that were dropped in large quantities over battlefields, or onto townships, and contained a single message that was intended to mentally unbalance large numbers of citizens or soldiers.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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His campaign is gaining momentum at a time when many of the administration’s steadfast Christian backers—alarmed by the president’s bullying campaign against Pope Leo XIV in recent weeks, among other heresies—have been rethinking their support.—
Elizabeth Bruenig,
The Atlantic,
24 Apr. 2026
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Maduro’s capture and extraction alarmed the Cuban leadership.—
Carlos Manuel Alvarez,
Time,
24 Apr. 2026
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