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That face-to-face confrontation is a reminder that the collection — radically democratic in its wide-open accessibility and its agglomeration of the high and low — has discomfited sticklers for regulation and orderliness from the outset.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021

The failure to have more extensive proceeding has discomfited some observers, but others point to the tribunal's accomplishments.

From Fox News • Nov. 16, 2018

The traffic has discomfited the Bonn government, but the East Germans have profited from the refugee business.

From Time Magazine Archive