disorient
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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
He uses overhead shots and camera angles and plays with focus to displace or disorient viewers.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023
Electric lights can disorient them, causing turtles to head the wrong way on the beach instead of following light from the moon and stars.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 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
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
She said the quiet has been smothered by the whir of the mine and created an “ecological dead zone” that disorients wildlife.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022
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
Prior to going missing Smyth had contacted rescuers from Tiganesti to say he was disoriented and physically exhausted.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“We envisioned this narrow field of view where his enemies suddenly pop out of the fog, and this type of shot adds to the disoriented feeling.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 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
Nico stepped into the sunlight, blinking and disoriented.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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
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
Finding solutions to math problems at an accelerating pace this way is exciting, if a bit disorienting.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
Downstairs, I was greeted by the scent of freshly brewed coffee, a smell as disarming as it was disorienting.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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