as in uncomfortably
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Recent Examples of uneasily
The other looks like a country that has swapped global overreach for a tighter, more brittle kind of empire—one that begins at the border and ends, uneasily, in its own streets.
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Newsweek Editors, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
Like his real-life friend and character Molly, Pacilio also uneasily embarked on his second career at age 55, launching into being an author at a time when the publishing world had undergone many changes.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2025
The true death knell, however, is the fact that the mix of dreary and dreamlike — the very juxtaposition that gives Kiss of the Spider Woman its aenima and its sting — sit too uneasily next to each other, as if both halves were stuck in a separate conversation instead of talking to each other.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2025
For 50 years, that status quo held uneasily, as subsequent peace efforts failed.
—Mireille Rebeiz, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uneasily
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Aside from technical glitches, there was uncomfortably dead air and forced improv.—
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What once read as moral conviction can, from another angle, start to look uncomfortably like a savior complex.—
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Residents have anxiously waited for eleven months to return home.—
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Fong and Smith’s team works to thaw the frozen equipment with warm water as Smith waits anxiously.—
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This show of sweetness fighting back against a sense of hopelessness builds an apprehensively brighter perspective than earlier work.—
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So Tehran is likely eyeing these developments very warily.—
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Israel has regarded the new authorities in Syria warily since the fall of former President Bashar Assad in a lightning offensive led by Islamist insurgents in December 2024.—
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More than a century of overfishing, industrialization, and hatchery mismanagement has brought several populations of salmon and their close relative the steelhead to critically low levels in the Pacific Northwest.—
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At the same time, retirement savings remain critically important, especially with the questions surrounding the sustainability of Social Security benefits.—
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“Uneasily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneasily. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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