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disoriented

adjective as in confused, unstable

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Dolphins usually beach themselves when sick, injured, or disoriented, and most do not survive.

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They suggest that, much like humans with dementia who sometimes wander away from familiar places, dolphins might also become disoriented due to a form of Alzheimer's-like disease.

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It was still dark, and I was disoriented.

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The Hunter's Return, he said, is "an instant-classic contemporary history painting that perfectly expresses the dark, disoriented zeitgeist of our age of perma-conflict".

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Just one month ago, on Aug. 16, a 50-year-old man fell to his death after becoming disoriented while descending the Clear Creek Trail during a summer snowstorm.

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