as in to disturb
to cause to go insane or as if insane
the shock of the loss of his wife and children completely unbalanced him
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Recent Examples of unbalance
Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
The foreign objects that rest upon my shoulders and head weighed me down and unbalanced my weighty body.
—Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
The two sides were (and still are) unlikely to come to terms given the unbalance in value.
—oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2021
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Jayati Ghosh, an economist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, said the meteoric rise of Ambani and the rest of India’s 200 billionaires, who collectively hold nearly $1 trillion, according to Forbes, could unbalance India’s development at a time when other economic metrics are lagging.
—Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
The foreign objects that rest upon my shoulders and head weighed me down and unbalanced my weighty body.
—Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
Noun
Directorial impulses that seem designed to ratchet up the audience-pleasing quotients of some of his most famous plays, but that in one way or another unbalance them and diminish their inherent power.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
The two sides were (and still are) unlikely to come to terms given the unbalance in value.
—oregonlive, 2 Nov. 2021
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The volcano’s light illuminates a double lenticular cloud, or a UFO-like cloud formation created when a mountain disturbs air flow and creates standing waves above it.Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
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The restaurant’s owner requested that the police detain the tourist for intoxication and disturbing the public order; on Sunday, Cabo Rojo’s mayor said that the responding officer had been suspended while the case was being investigated.Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2025
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Such an imbalance can create tension and dissatisfaction in a relationship.Mark Travers, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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The goal of American tariffs, in other words, should be to eliminate the United States’ automatic accommodation of global trade imbalances.Michael Pettis, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2024
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The company started to bring on editors who seemed less bothered by the PFC model.Liz Pelly, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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She was not bothered by the 50-degree morning in Pasadena — which, to many of the Southern Californians in attendance, qualified as chilly.Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025
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So much of it is in disequilibrium, riddled by heat, pressure, and chemicals trying to get from their current location to somewhere else.Robin George Andrews, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
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As Sargent understood and Peri proves, this couple requires an eye for dynamic disequilibrium.Phyllis Rose, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2024
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While performing in Melbourne, Australia as part of the band's Music of the Spheres World Tour in November, Martin seemingly got distracted by a group of screaming fans and stepped backwards into an open trapdoor.Lori A Bashian Fox News, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2024
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In the early 1800s, as Manhattan’s streets were being laid out, a number of the planners were distracted by a different job: connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.The Upshot Staff, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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Written in black and white, the attacks look deranged.Oliver Darcy, CNN, 31 May 2023
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The busy, fevered covers—everyone looks deranged—practically shout for a browser’s attention, in contrast to the subtler ones gracing later Clowes books like Wilson (2010) and Patience (2016).Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023
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Evans believes a lack of planning is largely to blame for our productivity failures, and warns people not to confuse being busy with being productive.Barnaby Lashbrooke, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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Penn State’s receivers won’t be confused for an elite group, but tight end Tyler Warren is the top player in the country at that position, and the running back duo of Kaytron Allen and Nick Singleton is one of the nation’s best.Antonio Morales, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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In season six, these controversies extended to the way the show depicted Mohamed Al-Fayed, all but accusing him of setting up the paparazzi frenzy that led to the deaths of Diana and his son, Dodi.Joe Reid, Vulture, 15 June 2024
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During the media frenzy the then-21-year-old held a press conference, delivering a heartfelt resignation speech.Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024
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“Unbalance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbalance. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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