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Recent Examples of unsettlingly
The Marriage Bed by Tommy Hays After a heated argument with his wife Betsy, Asheville, North Carolina, poetry professor Asa Flowers spends his first night apart from her in decades, only to wake to a world quietly and unsettlingly changed.
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Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
19 June 2026
Griffin’s blue eyes are unsettlingly bright.
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Gary Sernovitz,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Patient arthouse viewers, however, will find much to chew on here as a subtly cerebral film about small bodies unsettlingly, hilariously navigating a big, violent world.
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Beatrice Loayza,
Variety,
25 May 2026
On the season premiere of It Happened in Hollywood, director Lynne Littman and star Jane Alexander, nominated for an Oscar for her performance, revisit the film’s enduring impact, offering a deeply personal look at a project that still feels unsettlingly urgent.
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Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Mar. 2026
Disappearances are still unsettlingly high.
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Angélica Durán-Martínez,
The Conversation,
24 Feb. 2026
Otherwise, the streets are unsettlingly quiet.
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Vivian Song,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
In these 2-foot-square pictures, long-haired nude female figures in close Edenic companionship with wild beasts poke their heads out from behind lush tropical foliage, and stare, unsettlingly, straight outward.
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Benjamin Lima,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Feb. 2026
There is a curious absence of any patience in exploring the forces shaping their unsettlingly growing worldview.
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Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
19 June 2026
Griffin’s blue eyes are unsettlingly bright.
—
Gary Sernovitz,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Patient arthouse viewers, however, will find much to chew on here as a subtly cerebral film about small bodies unsettlingly, hilariously navigating a big, violent world.
—
Beatrice Loayza,
Variety,
25 May 2026
On the season premiere of It Happened in Hollywood, director Lynne Littman and star Jane Alexander, nominated for an Oscar for her performance, revisit the film’s enduring impact, offering a deeply personal look at a project that still feels unsettlingly urgent.
—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Mar. 2026
Disappearances are still unsettlingly high.
—
Angélica Durán-Martínez,
The Conversation,
24 Feb. 2026
Otherwise, the streets are unsettlingly quiet.
—
Vivian Song,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
In these 2-foot-square pictures, long-haired nude female figures in close Edenic companionship with wild beasts poke their heads out from behind lush tropical foliage, and stare, unsettlingly, straight outward.
—
Benjamin Lima,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Feb. 2026
There is a curious absence of any patience in exploring the forces shaping their unsettlingly growing worldview.
—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
6 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsettlingly
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The road to that disturbingly phallic Jules Rimet trophy inevitably goes through Spain, France, England, Belgium, Portugal, Croatia, Germany, and a bunch of others.
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Henry is a very tough movie, built on disturbingly casual violence and a characterization of the title character that is uniquely bleak even by horror standards.
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Public trust in medicine and science is alarmingly low, a persistent issue highlighted at Aspen Ideas Health and by the Edelman Trust Barometer, now exacerbated by social media.
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And, most alarmingly, Nick’s home doesn’t belong to him — and his wife and daughter aren’t there.
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The event was halted after an hour due to fears about her safety, which distressingly encapsulates a tension that the trans Mayan artist has navigated for years.
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The basic themes of Hearst’s life and the novels that dramatize it remain distressingly relevant.
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High-level players will basically always be in a drift—even during straightaways—to seize every opportunity to boost, just like people who were disgustingly good at Mario Kart DS back in the day.
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The next morning, Park awakes hung over before disgustingly scoffing down a handful of salmon off a caterer's serving tray.
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Such politicians viewed literature as subversive, irritatingly highbrow, and—like socialism—suspiciously European.
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Aaron, with divine intervention, turns the dust of the land into gnats that irritatingly cover humans and animals throughout Egypt.
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Not a massive issue, by any means, but annoyingly repetitive.
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That’s an annoyingly solid entry, as well as being our first to use each of their first three pick slots.
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This could be described as assertive or confident clothing, all of the designer’s work achieves drama while in its exceptionally flattering fit, and which somehow still looks and feels awfully comfortable.
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That’s an awfully bold move from Motorola, considering the foldable is powered by the same chip as the 2024 and 2025 models and also reuses the design and screens from previous generations.
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Hopefully just not as traumatically — although Holly’s already had a slightly traumatic childhood.
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“Unsettlingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsettlingly. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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