dizzy
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In the birthplace of Venezuela's oil industry, thick black crude seeps through cracks in the earth, and the air is heavy with the smell of gas, leaving visitors dizzy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
“He was disoriented, confused, dizzy, well before he collapsed. ... Matthew was demonstrating signs of a problem well before he collapsed, and they did nothing.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
"After a set and a half, I just couldn't feel well and was dizzy and seeing spots and couldn't recover," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
But one part of summer that most piqued our wide-eyed interest—that for all these years has felt like a dizzy dream—wasn’t on the campgrounds at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
I was sweating and I felt a little dizzy.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
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“They can march around the ring as long as they want, until they are so dizzy — dizzier then they already are — that they fall down.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2019
Then again, maybe he’s just woozy from all the money he’s made since buying the club, and the thought of taller piles make him dizzier.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 29, 2018
The injections don’t change how much pain I experience, but the next day I wake up even dizzier, with the woozy sensation that my body is rocking in space.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2016
In effect, censorship created plot, and in the process yielded one of the greatest of American film genres: thirties romantic comedy, including the dizzier versions celebrated as screwball comedy.
From The New Yorker ● May 2, 2016
Puffing loudly, Harry, Ron, and Hermione climbed the tightly spiraling steps, getting dizzier and dizzier, until at last they heard the murmur of voices above them and knew they had reached the classroom.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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She was auditioning for the role of Margot, the dizziest of the sorority sisters, a woman who has deep conversations with a Chihuahua.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2023
Their conclusion: “We think we have X-rayed the dizziest — and this will amaze you, as it did us, the dirtiest — community in America.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2016
It’s hypnotic in its empty-headed positivity, an exercise in teenybopper mythologizing that accidentally doubles as a deeply sad deconstruction of fame at its dizziest and most ephemeral.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2014
In early March, ARM's shares reached their highest point since the dizziest days of the dotcom boom 13 years ago, pushing its market value to $20.3bn.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2013
At the dizziest moment, he was suddenly aware of a figure, also turning the Point at full speed, and rushing to a collision.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 by Various
There is no dizzies, there is no cramps, there is no menopause.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2011
She dizzies him with quotes from Erich Fromm.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The number teases, dazzles the mind and even dizzies it, but that does not add up to understanding.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The St. Dunstan stood almost at the summit where Nob Hill slants obliquely to north and east, and Powell Street dizzies down the steep descent to North Beach and the Bay.
From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by Alice MacGowan
The whirl so dizzies, she breathes short; The serpent spirals seem to fold Laocöon-like about her limbs.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 7, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
Inexplicably, he found himself at LaGuardia Airport, so dizzied had he been by the experience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Keely Hodgkinson stood with her eyes and mouth wide open in astonishment, hands fixed either side of a head dizzied by two laps that had changed everything.
From BBC ● May 22, 2024
I was dizzied with terror, no ground beneath me; it was crazy-making, endless.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
I felt, not for the first time that summer, dizzied by the dissonance.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2020
They were dazzled and dizzied by the vision of the future they planned to share, which Lexie wanted so badly, sometimes, that she lay awake at night thinking about it.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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The sharp increase in hacks is part of a dizzying AI-driven acceleration of cybersecurity threats that is rippling around the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
The New York Times, external noted how it sees Holmes and Fielder "joust in a dizzying movie about truth, reality and the contours of knowledge".
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
The dizzying selloff has put many bonds underwater.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
Rosales long dreamed of being invited to the Biennale, and the full circle nature of it, the Venice, California, to Venice, Italy, of it all, is dizzying.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
The whole place filled with rustling and sniffles and sighs and cries, so much movement it was almost dizzying.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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