Example Sentences

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"While our results are scientifically impactful, they are disconcerting, creating a lot of interest among scientists, regulators, and the public."

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2024

“These are disconcerting times, and this painting actually contrasts with what we are seeing now between Ukraine and Russia,” she added.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2022

Both the novel and the diary are disconcerting because their overall tone is so reasonable, so painstakingly on the side of common sense and simple human decency.

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2016

These shifts in tone are disconcerting, but most problematic is the lack of dramatic tension or plausibility.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2015

Truly, it is correctly said that these phenomena are disconcerting.

From Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research by Sage, Michael