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Recent Examples of Synonyms for discomposure
Noun
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Olivero says climate change perturbations continue to concern the winery.—
Michelle Williams,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025 -
However, as the comet recedes from the sun, planetary perturbations will make the orbit even more elongated, so the next return to perihelion (of whatever of it is that is still left of it) will be about 600,000 years hence.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Kier’s Goal – This is, as some expected, a pursuit of a life free from pain, or even discomfort.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Like anxiety, a heart attack can also cause chest pain, heaviness, or discomfort.—
Brittany Dube,
Health,
21 Mar. 2025
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While local authorities have since said the incident spawned from a physical altercation between two attendees, and that firearms were not involved, the resulting melee left at least 10 people with non-life-threatening injuries and numerous claiming emotion distress.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
15 Mar. 2025
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Garcia’s damages included physical pain, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life, humiliation, inconvenience, grief, disfigurement, physical impairment, anxiety and emotional distress, according to a recording of the verdict from Courtroom View Network.—
Ramishah Maruf,
CNN,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Side effects in children may include agitation or bedwetting, in addition to the side effects experienced by adults.6 Accidental ingestion is also a problem.—
Jennifer Lefton, MS, RD/N, CNSC, FAND,
Verywell Health,
6 Mar. 2025
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When people are going through withdrawal from drugs, symptoms can generally include agitation, diarrhea, nausea, sweating, chills, stomach cramps, muscle aches, trembling, appetite changes, sweating, fatigue, depression, vomiting, seizures and intense cravings, experts said.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN,
28 Feb. 2025
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As policy stances shift constantly, families are left with a sense of unease and confusion that is confounded by the stress of adjusting to their new lives.—
Clara-Sophia Daly,
Miami Herald,
19 Mar. 2025
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As Khalil’s arrest in New York casts confusion and unease, educators and international students in the Chicago area and beyond are sounding the alarm and bracing for unprecedented intellectual repression.—
Zareen Syed,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2025
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Everywhere, Ryback says, the cartoonists and editorialists delighted in Hitler’s discomfiture.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2024
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Back in the States, Frankie suffers from terrifying episodes of PTSD, from society’s refusal to believe that women served in the conflict and from her own parents’ discomfiture over her service.—
Katherine A. Powers,
Washington Post,
9 Mar. 2024
Noun
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The source of the disturbance was just over a mile deep, experts say.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Mar. 2025
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According to a spokesman from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, which investigated the shooting, Independence police responded to a disturbance around 8 p.m. at a home in the 800 block of E. College Street in Independence.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Some characters, like Tina, make other characters sense something unusual and simultaneously doubt their interpretations—such characters often bring an interesting air of disquiet to a story.—
Cressida Leyshon,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2025
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But this apparent calm masks major sources of disquiet.—
Paul Staniland,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Jan. 2019
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“Discomposure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discomposure. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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