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dizzy

[diz-ee] / ˈdɪz i /




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Richie postponed concerts in June after feeling dizzy during a set and then checked into a hospital after a performance in August.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 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

Third seed Felix Auger-Aliassime said he was "dizzy and seeing spots" in a surprise second-round loss to Karen Khachanov at the US Open.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Nhamo began to get dizzy when she stood up.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

“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

With his head growing dizzier, Joseph shut the door behind him and climbed up the stairs.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick

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

The celestial home-sickness came over me, and urged me forth through woods and ravines, over the dizziest mountain paths of dialectics.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

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

Loosely I prod the table with a fork, My mind gapes, dizzies, ceases to work...

From Poems - First Series by J. C. (John Collings) Squire

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

As I cling tightly to the scarecrow’s legs, I look down, and I am dizzied by vertigo.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

As in other resort towns, hotels and ski mountains were charging dizzying rates to keep up with operational costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The dizzying selloff has put many bonds underwater.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 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

Bees buzzed through honeysuckle and jasmine, which filled the afternoon air with a dizzying mix of perfumes.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan


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