Example Sentences

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The scenes follow her attempts to shake off her dependency on Xavier, gliding in an elegant but wispy and uncentered way between memories, philosophical maunderings and embellishments of imagined interactions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

Consisting primarily of overlapping circles, the abstract paintings in Mira Hecht’s Addison/Ripley Fine Art show look simultaneously centered and uncentered.

From Washington Post • Oct. 6, 2022

But on her patently austere new album, Gaga’s music has never sounded more conservative, lightweight, unctuous or uncentered — it’s as if she’s gotten lost inside her truer, blander self.

From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2016

“Woofiness” — a wobbly, uncentered tone — was his bane.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2016

It was, politely speaking, a disaster, sloppy and uncentered and poorly received.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2010