How to Use unanchored in a Sentence
unanchored
adjective
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The weather service says storm threats include damage to porches, carports, sheds and unanchored mobile homes.
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Bloomberg.com,
10 Sep. 2017
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But the centerpiece of the show is both impressive and instructive, even if it’s built on the flimsiest foundation and seems apt to topple over like an unanchored church steeple.
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John Anderson,
WSJ,
21 June 2018
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Illustrating the danger, officials at the time said the mine became unanchored from whatever was holding it in place and that it was carried to shore by crashing waves.
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Jennifer Hassan,
Washington Post,
19 June 2022
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Without that frame, the tale and its characters have less resonance, and their outsized passions and emotions can seem unanchored and cartoonish.
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Paul Hodgins,
Orange County Register,
29 Jan. 2017
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Rapid changes in technology, major shifts in the labor market and the economy, the Covid-19 pandemic, and more have caused many Americans to feel unanchored.
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Thor Benson,
WIRED,
12 Dec. 2022
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Like Lonnie Frisbee, Girard was unanchored and experimenting with drugs in the late 1960s.
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Randall Roberts,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Oct. 2021
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Little by little, the girl told Luna-Herrera about problems with friends and her boyfriend and problems at home that left her feeling alone and desperately unanchored.
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Jocelyn Gecker,
ajc,
4 Apr. 2022
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The key here is long-term inflation expectations which, while higher, do not look unanchored from near the policy target of 2% today.
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Paul Swartz,
Fortune,
8 Apr. 2022
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Because this album travels in so many directions, there are places where Mr. Vernon sounds unanchored, and where his reluctance gives way to lack of commitment.
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Jon Caramanica,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2016
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The second is that the Fed has been too optimistic about prices cooling on their own, and fails to realize expectations have come unanchored, unleashing a wage-price spiral.
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Nick Timiraos,
WSJ,
12 Dec. 2021
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So, no, inflation expectations are not becoming unanchored as the Fed has feared.
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Robert Barone,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2022
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The weather service anticipates wind damage to porches, awnings, sheds and unanchored mobile homes.
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Nyssa Kruse,
Arkansas Online,
27 Aug. 2020
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In the language of central banks, expectations become unanchored.
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Andrew Stuttaford,
National Review,
5 Mar. 2021
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Structurally high and unanchored inflation was widespread by the time the 1970s oil shocks finished off any remaining foundations of a healthy inflation regime.
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Paul Swartz,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2021
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Damage primarily to unanchored homes, shrubbery and trees.
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Cnn Editorial Research,
CNN,
19 May 2021
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Damage primarily to unanchored mobile homes, shrubbery and trees.
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Seattle Times Staff,
The Seattle Times,
26 Aug. 2017
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When discussing energy, Harris has in mind a vague, albeit wholly unanchored, futurism.
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Charles C. W. Cooke,
National Review,
16 Mar. 2022
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An extreme version of deflationary pressures—that of a depression—remains on the risk menu because, like the opposite extreme of unanchored double-digit inflation and rates, it can never be ruled out.
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Paul Swartz,
Fortune,
7 June 2022
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Prices and wages could suddenly and quickly accelerate should unemployment fall beneath some threshold at which everything becomes unanchored.
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The Economist,
10 Oct. 2019
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Gregory Coll will be able to interpret hard physical facts from speculation and unanchored analytical results.
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Baltimore Sun,
18 May 2022
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Finally, there is no evidence of unanchored inflation expectations.
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Christian Weller,
Forbes,
8 Nov. 2021
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These days, however, teleworking policies have created geographic freedom; homeowners are now unanchored.
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Nafeesah Allen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 July 2021
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