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Recent Examples of unglued
Slide a piece of twine between the candle and the unglued part of the pipe cleaner.
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Cody Godwin, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
Floor tiles had become unglued in spots.
—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Nov. 2025
The ball slipped cleanly through the net just as time expired, and the arena in Chicago became unglued.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
Creed’s left front side came completely unglued while Poole’s entire right side of his vehicle tore off as well as his right rear tire.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 Apr. 2025
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Cody Godwin, USA Today, 10 Dec. 2025
Floor tiles had become unglued in spots.
—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 20 Nov. 2025
The ball slipped cleanly through the net just as time expired, and the arena in Chicago became unglued.
—Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2025
Creed’s left front side came completely unglued while Poole’s entire right side of his vehicle tore off as well as his right rear tire.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unglued
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The Brooklyn grandmom was upset that the women were allowing their dogs to defecate in an empty lot next to her property, her son told the Daily News at the time.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
25 Apr. 2026
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My mom was very upset that the inheritance was not divided up equally and asked me several times why my portion would be so much larger.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Mercury News,
24 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Dickinson appeared somewhere between perturbed and seething.—
Phil Thompson,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine, derived from a clothing dye called methylene blue, was first tested on agitated and delusional patients in 1952.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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Trump has long agitated for changes at CNN, and few expect his Justice Department to block the transaction.—
Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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And a disturbed microbiome may contribute to colorectal cancer.—
Yuki Noguchi,
NPR,
27 Apr. 2026
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One of them, a disturbed Army veteran carrying a knife, jumped the fence in 2014 and raced into the White House, making his way into the East Room before heading back down a hallway on the State Floor deep within the mansion.—
Meg Kinnard,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The unhinged left is still in its bubble and as crazy as ever while there are Maher types who now see how this ultimately will turn out at the polls.—
Joe Kinsey OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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After two days in which the baseball was not Coors Field’s usual kind of crazy, Thursday’s getaway day got a Rocky Mountain kind of unhinged.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Apr. 2026
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Foster gives a taut performance despite the unstrung absurdities of the plot.—
Hilton Als,
New Yorker,
16 Jan. 2026
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When the Premier Lacrosse League’s Boston Cannons opened training camp back in May with unstrung lacrosse stick heads, players knew who to ask for an assist.—
Eric Jackson,
Sportico.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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But this only made Kennedy more flustered.—
Patrick Radden Keefe,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Our flustered narrator attempts to defend himself on the grounds of sketchy reporting ethics—don’t some interviewers take notes and extrapolate later?—
Hannah Gold,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Mar. 2026
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So how worried should these teams be?—
Shayna Goldman,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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People that maybe have a more precarious position in the industry and are worried and see AI as a threat — which is absolutely valid — and younger people, younger actors and musicians.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Unglued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unglued. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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