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dizzy

[diz-ee] / ˈdɪz i /




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At the Commonwealths, she was dizzy while running and her body was more sore than normal.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

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

But that day my fever started to soar, and at one point I was so dizzy that I leaned against the new hull and closed my eyes.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

“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

And I think her inside ear is making her dizzier than ever.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

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

Well, she's one of the dizziest that ever stood up to make a background for the pony ballet.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford

There is no dizzies, there is no cramps, there is no menopause.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2011

The number teases, dazzles the mind and even dizzies it, but that does not add up to understanding.

From Time Magazine Archive

She dizzies him with quotes from Erich Fromm.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Eve.The precipice of ill Down this colossal nature, dizzies me: And, hark! the starry harmony remote Seems measuring the heights from whence he fell.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Inexplicably, he found himself at LaGuardia Airport, so dizzied had he been by the experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

As Jamieson Gibson-Park picked and went from the base, Lowe swerved out of his hiding spot and past a dizzied Chandler Cunningham-South.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025

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

The heat in the kitchen dizzied him so that voices echoed in his ears.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

The dizzying selloff has put many bonds underwater.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

It’s a dizzying thought, the comet from Norristown sharing space with Man City stars like the Norwegian Thunder God Erling Haaland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

But the rapid ascent to stardom has been dizzying for the 25-year-old actress.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 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

I’m trying to concentrate on the dizzying landscape that rushes past us.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu


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