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"The only feeling I had was the need to complete what had to be done, which was disarming Mr Monzo and ultimately the preservation of life."

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2025

So even if I was 40, the fact that I was skating around, it was disarming for younger people.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2024

When she was mulling over the Olympics in an interview more than four months before her arrival in Beijing, her candor about the experience was disarming.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2022

“She was just somebody who would encourage me and hang out with me. She was shy, and I was disarming because I was a kid. She took a liking to me.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 1, 2021

It was disarming how he’d disappeared from the corner of the cave only to reappear directly in front of me in the beat of a second.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall