as in uncomfortably
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There, two grown siblings and their families gather, somewhat uneasily, to commemorate the anniversary of the death of their elder brother, who 15 years earlier drowned while saving a local boy from the ocean.
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Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
She was jet-lagged, my brother and I assured each other uneasily.
—Laura Hercher, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2024
Distantly, and uneasily, there is revolution in the air.
—Elizabeth Nelson, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
In the inevitable counterstrikes, Lebanon, which has uneasily accommodated Hezbollah since the nineteen-eighties, would likely be destroyed.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
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Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
She was jet-lagged, my brother and I assured each other uneasily.
—Laura Hercher, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2024
Distantly, and uneasily, there is revolution in the air.
—Elizabeth Nelson, The Atlantic, 31 July 2024
In the inevitable counterstrikes, Lebanon, which has uneasily accommodated Hezbollah since the nineteen-eighties, would likely be destroyed.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
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“Uneasily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uneasily. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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