as in uncomfortably
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The heavy-handed symbolism of this last image sits a little uneasily with the semisatirical mode in which the story has been rendered.
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Houman Barekat, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
And so matters stayed, uneasily but alertly, until 1980.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
For some, the prospect of the site of the US’s most notorious nuclear disaster being used to power the AI revolution might sit uneasily.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2024
Yet the two coexist uneasily because the party still nominally embraces Marxism-Leninism, whose emphasis on equality goes against Confucianism, which stresses hierarchy.
—Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
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Houman Barekat, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2024
And so matters stayed, uneasily but alertly, until 1980.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024
For some, the prospect of the site of the US’s most notorious nuclear disaster being used to power the AI revolution might sit uneasily.
—Matt Reynolds, WIRED, 24 Sep. 2024
Yet the two coexist uneasily because the party still nominally embraces Marxism-Leninism, whose emphasis on equality goes against Confucianism, which stresses hierarchy.
—Youwei, Foreign Affairs, 4 June 2015
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