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disillusionment

[dis-i-loo-zhuhn-muhnt] / ˌdɪs ɪˈlu ʒən mənt /




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But they help explain the sense of economic disillusionment that has made his old critique newly resonant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Can those music scenes credibly speak to that disillusionment today?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Martin Luther King Jr described America as manifesting a "schizophrenic personality" long before the nationwide disillusionment with the Dream began.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

The first half of Communion, on Vance’s journey from evangelical Christianity to atheism to Catholicism, takes the reader through his disillusionment with the conservative evangelical churches of his youth.

From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026

As the summer of 1904 faded away, disillusionment sat heavy over Packingtown and the Black Belt.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

My life was littered with awkwardnesses, estrangements, mutual disillusionments, abandoned projects.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2016

The experience provides an allegory for Ned’s life: every pool “reflects” something about his personal and professional disillusionments and dissatisfactions.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2015

It, too, is concerned with the disillusionments wrought by war and adulthood.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2015

Answered prayers can be cruel in their own right, proved by the disillusionments that have followed other recent breakthroughs -- the hardships of unified Germany, Russia's dismal paralysis.

From Time Magazine Archive

It too now seems convincing to many archaeologists, but caution is warranted in view of all the previous disillusionments.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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