unnerve

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• Even though the stock market rebounded somewhat in the ensuing days, the swiftness of the sharp decline left many investors unnerved.

• Take for instance the recent protests in Lagos, which have left many in the tech scene unnerved.

• That helps explain why some investors, unnerved by the whiff of desperation surrounding the deal, reached for the ejection handle on Monday.

• Especially the raspberry rye cookies just sort of unnerve me.

• The previous wave of excitement over the path integral in the ’80s, driven by Hawking’s work, fizzled out in part because theorists were unnerved by the accumulation of approximations.

• More likely, it would make noises or take steps to unnerve peace with Israel in the Sinai just to show us up.

• Yesterday, China Daily reported that the collapse of the boom on the crane “may unnerve some Chinese buyers.”

• It did not reflect two decades of hostility and would unnerve our respective friends and publics.

• And it could unnerve the establishment—including the powerful Army.

• Part of her secret is her certitude, which is enough to unnerve most people.

• By old rule, you ought not to look down in crossing such a place, lest the sight of the torrent whirling below should unnerve you.

• The groping darkness seemed to unnerve him more than anything else now—that and the awful stillness under his feet.