disorient

“Kiko always tends to disorient people somehow,” Deanna shares.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Air defenses’ large-scale use of spoofing, or transmitting fake GPS signals to send drones off course, can disorient civilian air traffic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

To add a touch of mystery, contestants will travel and sleep on a coach with blacked-out windows to disorient them.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025

The commander, known on the battlefield as Oleksandr, flips a switch to activate the jammer which interferes with the drone’s radar; it’s the equivalent of shining a bright light in someone’s eye to disorient them.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

Here on earth, orienting yourself depends on the feeling you get from the pull of gravity, plus your vision. just being blindfolded is enough to disorient some people.

From The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe

Some moments play out in too many close-ups, suffocating the scene; an occasional edit inadvertently disorients our sense of place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

No work of Lek’s, however, disorients quite like “Refuge,” a three-panel painting completed in 2023 that extends to a width of 12 feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

Goldin disorients the reader by deploying multiple timelines — the present, several days ago and two years earlier, when Liv told the police she was being harassed by a stalker.

From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022

But the more likely problem is that social media presents a feed or timeline of content that disorients its consumers and unmoors them from reality.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 10, 2020

The beauty disorients many of the players, because when the gong sounds, most of them seem like they’re trying to wake from a dream.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

“He was disoriented, confused, dizzy, well before he collapsed. ... Matthew was demonstrating signs of a problem well before he collapsed, and they did nothing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Prior to going missing Smyth had contacted rescuers from Tiganesti to say he was disoriented and physically exhausted.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Tolerant readers will delight in the digressive nature of this inventive book, though others may be disoriented by a story that drastically switches gears before concluding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Mary is disoriented and desperate, and the mere sight of her assures Sam that whatever favor Mary asks for, Sam can attach strings to.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

Two days later, Henrietta awoke terrified, disoriented, wanting to know where she was and what the doctors had been doing to her.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Travel, she says, “was exciting, exhausting, anxiety-producing, disorienting, stimulating, joyful and difficult to explain to others.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

“When everyday tasks suddenly require help, or take three times as long because of language or unfamiliar systems, it can feel disorienting in a way that catches people off guard.”

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026

Finding solutions to math problems at an accelerating pace this way is exciting, if a bit disorienting.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

Being displaced from your home is inconvenient and disorienting.

From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026

It was as if his memory loss had stolen a chunk of his language—it was disorienting.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner