Example Sentences

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Energy prices overall will sustain inflationary pressures, Lacalle warns, including, most disconcertingly, in food prices.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

William Gaddis’s satirical novel about capitalism and work begins disconcertingly midsentence: “—Money . . . ? in a voice that rustled.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

He had tens of thousands of Instagram followers and was friends with other disconcertingly attractive gay men my friends and I dubbed “the Instagays.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2025

Amid the uncertainty, some public health experts suggest, the public conversation about H5N1 has become disconcertingly contradictory, with reassuring messages that risks are low juxtaposed against warnings of a brewing pandemic.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2024

He takes a step forward, the ground disconcertingly soft beneath his feet.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern