Example Sentences

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Investors have uneasily adjusted to a new normal, where companies that used to be some of the world’s biggest and most reliable free cash-flow generators now don’t have a lot of cash to spare.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

That reasoning sits uneasily with the court’s modern insistence on historical analogy.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2026

Venezuela isn’t like Mexico, where a state coexists uneasily with cartels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

The “House of Ashur” alternate timeline shows Ashur’s formerly enslaved Syrian having won his freedom and the patronage of Marcus Licinius Crassus, one of the triumvirate of generals uneasily sharing power.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

Bigwig and Silver were awake, but all the rest were still napping uneasily.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams