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WORD OF THE DAY
Word of the Day:
unperturbed
This word has appeared in 14 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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By The Learning Network
May 12, 2023
unperturbed \ ˌən-pər-ˈtərbd \ adjective
: not worried, troubled or upset
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The word unperturbed has appeared in 14 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Jan. 13 in “The State of Kate” by Rhonda Garelick:
Prince Harry’s blockbuster memoir, “Spare,” has dragged the royal family back into international focus with details at once banal and intriguing. Kate Middleton, as she is still sometimes known to those of us who remember her before her royal marriage, figures in the memoir and the Netflix documentary “Harry & Meghan” as a sketch of steely disapproval and emotional coolness.
… The public spectacle of royalty is like a swan we see gliding serenely on a lake. But the private, usually unseen side consists of those webbed feet below, furiously churning in the water. One half cannot exist without the other. Perhaps Harry and Meghan’s bombshells help balance out the family, serving as those pedaling feet. By tacitly agreeing to represent chaos they permit the others to seem calm and unruffled by comparison. And the calmest of all, the smoothest and most unperturbed of swans is Catherine, still silently gliding toward the future — the ever-waiting princess