as in upheaval
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Social Security Administration leadership upheaval The Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is not a federal department.—
Lorie Konish,
CNBC,
1 Mar. 2025 -
But, this season has been dominated by injuries and roster upheaval.—
Corey Masisak,
The Denver Post,
27 Feb. 2025
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The third one is transgenerational trauma; the fact that this sense of dispossession, this sense of insecurity, this sense of unsettlement is transferred from generation to generation.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Apr. 2024
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The first sign of unsettlement is when Carl starts bringing mismatched chairs to Jody’s shop, where the play takes place, claiming his own apartment is too small.—
ELISABETH VINCENTELLI,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2017
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Encephalitis may lead to convulsions and can cause deafness or leave a child with a lifelong intellectual disability, health officials warn.—
Sara Moniuszko,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2025
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Among children with measles, about 1 in every 20 develops pneumonia, the CDC said, and about one in every 1,000 suffers swelling of the brain called encephalitis — which can lead to convulsions, deafness or intellectual disability.—
Laura Ungar,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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The film follows Dormer as Dr. Audrey Evans, who is fighting her own revolution amidst the resistance to the Vietnam War in 1960s Philadelphia.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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When winning the Golden Globe last month for Best Actor in a Drama, Brody attributed his performance to his mother, a photographer who fled Europe in 1956 during the Hungarian revolution.—
Vivian Kwarm,
New York Daily News,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Unsettledness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsettledness. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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