as in distracting
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 unbalancing
The risk is that only a handful of clubs will be able to cough up those sums, unbalancing the market.
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Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 19 May 2026
Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 19 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbalancing
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Finally, toolbars are becoming more consistent, and the distracting icons in drop-down menus are quietly disappearing.—
Edward Mendelson,
PC Magazine,
10 June 2026
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The formal obligation to bow or curtsy will force targets to bend a knee and break eye contact—a perfect opening for the President to place something distracting like a Twix bar on their heads.—
Dahlia Gallin Ramirez,
New Yorker,
9 June 2026
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Iranian leadership complained that visas for key staff members were being held up and the tumult was disturbing its preparation for the tournament.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
11 June 2026
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Fighting for your idea at the risk of disturbing the peace in the room is hard.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
11 June 2026
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Instead of lobbing the ball from end to end, teams played straight up the gut (brighter red colour), barely even bothering to use the wings (darker blue colour).—
John Muller,
New York Times,
6 June 2026
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Brunson turned on the boosters in the second half, attacking the Spurs' defense and showing little sign that his knee was bothering him.—
Alejandro Avila,
FOXNews.com,
4 June 2026
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By upsetting Sporting in the final, their coach, Luis Tralhao, and his players wrote one of the fairytales of the 2025-26 season.—
James Horncastle,
New York Times,
10 June 2026
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Here’s what dietitians, microbiome researchers and a major 2021 study say about which foods make the cut and how to add them without upsetting your stomach.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
20 May 2026
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If your team is stuck in a rut, too polite to disagree, or confusing harmony with alignment, choose Elizabeth.—
Ann Kowal Smith,
Forbes.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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An endless array of confusing tariff news, with economists and others discussing its impact on the economy.—
Tom Jurkowsky,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Aug. 2025
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Burmese pythons, which can engulf an entire Presidential golfing party simply by unhinging their (the pythons’) jaws, inhabit the environs of the Gulf of Mexico, and have even been seen swimming offshore.—
Ian Frazier,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Few know the alchemy of unsettling audio design better than Nine Inch Nails and one-time Guns n’ Roses guitarist Robin Finck, who toured with NIN from 1994 to 2000, and returned for their subsequent road shows from 2013 to the present.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
3 Dec. 2025
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What’s unsettling market nerves is that no one knows how long a record rally in technology stocks will last, and AI’s spending spree – and growing piles of debt to finance it – has shaken the market’s faith.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
20 Nov. 2025
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This could be maddening for a producer.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
11 June 2026
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But the streak exemplifies a maddening bent toward mediocrity that had been — until the last few years, when the Wizards finally undertook a down-to-the-studs rebuild under president of Monumental Basketball Michael Winger and general manager Will Dawkins — the franchise’s calling card.—
David Aldridge,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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“Unbalancing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbalancing. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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