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That, she said, "will unsettle our financial and other commercial institutions, to the point that doing business in a state in which they face undefined, exponential liability might soon prove unpalatable."

From Reuters • Jun. 13, 2023

The artist will unsettle our sense of color and light, but he won’t disturb breakfast.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2023

"Any failure to do so will unsettle the markets," he warned the chancellor.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2022

“It will unsettle our national foundation,” he said, “enervating our national character and values.”

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

It is doubtless in part this disappointment that will unsettle us in our present moorings and take us probably soon to Germany.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry