disorient

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

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

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

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

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 best historical fiction disorients us by demonstrating the uncanny nature of the past — a world like and not like ours, woven through with strands of ancient DNA.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 21, 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

Used to the instant feedback of digital life, many younger employees feel disoriented and anxious when left guessing where they stand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Just when he’s got you disoriented and distracted, he strikes, boring you to death.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

Gina Davis, a Pasadena schoolteacher, was worried when she learned that a peacock who had lived in her neighborhood for years was found disoriented and wouldn’t eat or drink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

One, Owen, was found disoriented in the woods.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

Heavily disoriented, I staggered to my feet, grasping onto a bedpost to keep from falling.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

I was pretty grounded, and it was still very disorienting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

It’s also important to remember that grief is disorienting.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

There is something genuinely disorienting about reading all of this in a Senate oversight letter and arriving at Taco Bell as the comparatively lucid party.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

For someone who grew up in China, where religion is tightly managed by the state, the effect is quietly disorienting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

"I can’t," I begin, but I feel more people pressing in, more voices asking for help; it's confusing and disorienting and everyone's faces are dark and shadowed.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse