disorient
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He uses overhead shots and camera angles and plays with focus to displace or disorient viewers.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023
Activists have been calling on buildings to turn off bright lights, which can disorient birds.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2023
She’s not afraid to disorient an audience — or to disgust them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
After a series of early missteps, Russia reportedly moved some electronic-warfare systems to the front lines in Ukraine, aiming to disorient and disable Ukrainian drones before they could reach their targets.
From Washington Times ● May 20, 2023
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 Keyhoe, Donald E. (Donald Edward)
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
Light pollution disorients millions of migratory birds and is contributing to the population decline of pollinating insects.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
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
This soul-scarring movie unfolds as though under a trancelike spell of its own making, one that disorients as much as it hypnotizes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 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
Certainly, I felt a bit like Odysseus as I crept — drained, disoriented and trailing popcorn crumbs like Ithican sand — out into the sun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 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
“I was disoriented at first. It’s hard to step out of that go-go mentality.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
The woman appears to have tried to lead the disoriented animal away from the shopping street.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
I blinked, disoriented and scared, but I managed to tumble off of my shelf.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
“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
Plucked from a previous life as a working actor, Richard Gadd experienced a disorienting whirlwind less than two years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
The sudden subject switch is disorienting, but Scoob tries to go with it.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
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