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- adverb In an
unsettling manner.
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Examples
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And though decades separate us from the most violent period of racial hatred in this country, the work will remain unsettlingly relevant as long we live in a world perpetually rattled by violence: national, racial, religious, ethnic -- you name it.
Edward Goldman: Be Warned: This Art Makes You Want to Throw Up Edward Goldman 2011
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And though decades separate us from the most violent period of racial hatred in this country, the work will remain unsettlingly relevant as long we live in a world perpetually rattled by violence: national, racial, religious, ethnic -- you name it.
Edward Goldman: Be Warned: This Art Makes You Want to Throw Up Edward Goldman 2011
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The sight of numerous regions declaring sovereignty and barraging Moscow with demands was unsettlingly familiar to those who had just watched the Soviet Union fall apart.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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And though decades separate us from the most violent period of racial hatred in this country, the work will remain unsettlingly relevant as long we live in a world perpetually rattled by violence: national, racial, religious, ethnic -- you name it.
Edward Goldman: Be Warned: This Art Makes You Want to Throw Up Edward Goldman 2011
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The sight of numerous regions declaring sovereignty and barraging Moscow with demands was unsettlingly familiar to those who had just watched the Soviet Union fall apart.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Your words sound unsettlingly close to those that would incite a rebellion.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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The sight of numerous regions declaring sovereignty and barraging Moscow with demands was unsettlingly familiar to those who had just watched the Soviet Union fall apart.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Your words sound unsettlingly close to those that would incite a rebellion.
Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011
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Brave, brilliant and unsettlingly wild, the author of "Wuthering Heights" left much less of a personal record than her sister Charlotte, but the fragmentary evidence shows that Emily Brontë was very much what she said she hoped to be: "Through life and death, a chainless soul / With courage to endure."
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This seems unsettlingly possible, most days, though I think that's probably how almost all writers feel.
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