unsteady

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Recent Examples of unsteady She's come to terms with the unsteady income, but even with acceptance, Wall admits that times do get tough. Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 19 June 2025 The early moments with Scott’s Anne Marie are unsteady. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2025 Despite this, the market feels a bit more unsteady than usual. Nick Jachim, The Hill, 26 Apr. 2025 The camera swirls around the scene, unsteady and swift. Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for unsteady
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsteady
Adjective
  • Coaches and players who had meticulously calibrated fitness programs for 2024 were forced into an extended holding pattern, trying to maintain sharpness through sporadic friendlies and local camps.
    Sindiswa Mabunda, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • However, with Brooks Lee, Kody Clemens and Lewis receiving the bulk of the playing time, at-bats became more sporadic for Bride, who only had eight hits in his last 58 at-bats for the Twins.
    Dan Hayes, New York Times, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • But David’s volatile behavior, which includes smashing a glass coffee table to pieces in front of the other children, quickly turns them into unwelcome guests.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025
  • Whether or not all these pricing updates are related to tariffs is unclear, but the volatile trade war has brought uncertainty.
    Julian Chokkattu, Wired News, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • For manufacturers using Odoo, a strategic approach to agentic AI can help prepare for unstable markets, rising costs, shifting customer demands and hostile geopolitics.
    Dmitriy Stepanov, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • But Haiti remains unstable, Columbus' Manuel said, disputing the government's claim that conditions have improved there.
    Danae King, USA Today, 7 July 2025
Adjective
  • The pandemic may have accelerated long-standing public health challenges, and the recovery, the study makes clear, has been uneven and incomplete.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
  • Whether dealing with slick grass, gravel paths, or uneven surfaces, the Sunseeker Elite X7 maintains control and performance with minimal slippage.
    William Jones, USA Today, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • However, the available data indicates that for the past several months there has been a persistent presence of hydrogen sulfide, causing intermittent exposure to levels that some studies and environmental health experts suggest can cause respiratory complications.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
  • Itasca received intermittent voice messages from Earhart as her signal increased.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • The head of the European Central Bank said inflation has become more unpredictable due to shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and that policymakers need to take the possibility of such extreme scenarios into account and communicate them to the public as well.
    Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 July 2025
  • But for investors who are wary of the susceptibility of Argos’s sales to the unpredictable nature of the weather, the team is ramping up its efforts to expand its products to include stockless ranges.
    John Choong, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • The 32-year-old spent the last two seasons exclusively in the NHL after grinding his way through AHL seasons with the occasional call-up.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 10 July 2025
  • Several chains have announced deals to mark the occasional on their websites, in social media or in news releases.
    Fielding Buck, Oc Register, 10 July 2025
Adjective
  • Hers is the kind of face that inspires directors to tight framing — gleaming, as if smoothed from marble, and yet somehow pliant, changeful.
    Jordan Kisner Jack Davison, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Rigorous, blustery winter; winding sleety spring; hot, moist enervating summer; changeful autumn with its dog-days; these are absolutely unknown.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023

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“Unsteady.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsteady. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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