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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
unsettle .
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Examples
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The exchange reveals much: first, people care for this "Wonder Woman of American letters" as friend and writer; second, misery unsettles identities and at this point Oates, author of more than 50 novels, does not see herself primarily as a novelist; third, she is honest enough sometimes to paint a quite unattractive self-portrait.
A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates – review 2011
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But even as this new impending crisis unsettles commercial lenders and borrowers, the story of its origins can shed new light on how we got into this larger financial mess in the first place.
Capitalist Fools 2010
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The very existence of the Tea Party unsettles the assertion that stable liberal democracy yields a politics governed by reason alone.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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It's a minimalist sci-fi mystery about a Silver Lake couple who infiltrate a cult led by a charismatic woman Ms. Marling whose ambiguous identity unsettles the pair.
Visions of the Horizon for City Moviegoers Steve Dollar 2011
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Finally: Successful reform requires having the stomach to ditch what doesn't work, follow through on what does and try what might, even when such action unsettles stakeholders.
DeMorning DeBonis: Oct. 11, 2010 Mike DeBonis 2010
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The very existence of the Tea Party unsettles the assertion that stable liberal democracy yields a politics governed by reason alone.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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The very existence of the Tea Party unsettles the assertion that stable liberal democracy yields a politics governed by reason alone.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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The blurring/symbolic erasure (especially of the heads) in this one unsettles me.
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The very existence of the Tea Party unsettles the assertion that stable liberal democracy yields a politics governed by reason alone.
Feisal G. Mohamed: Against Historical Fundamentalism: Jill Lepore on the Tea Party Feisal G. Mohamed 2011
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That prospect unsettles policy makers because it can trigger a self-perpetuating surge in the inflation rate, as happened in the 1970s.
Britons See Higher Prices, Lower Confidence Jason Douglas 2011
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