disorienting
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Being displaced from your home is inconvenient and disorienting.
From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026
It’s a disorienting sight for newcomers who have just passed gas pumps and rows of soda and Slim Jims and tugged on various cooler doors in search of the secret handle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
This device continuously rotates cells to mimic the disorienting effects of zero gravity.
From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026
It’s been profoundly disorienting to hear mainstream commentators, including some who identify as liberals, flirting once again with the phrase “regime change,” as if they were late-night texting that seductive bad-boy ex they can’t resist.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
Though the darkness had swallowed her whole, her burnished image was still imprinted on his retinas; it obscured his vision, brightening when he lowered his eyelids, disorienting him.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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