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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

She is still not fully recovered and suffers with post-sepsis syndrome, which leads to dizzy spells and extreme fatigue.

From BBC Sep. 13, 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

Feeling dizzy and unwell after cycling to work in Japan's punishing summer heat, warehouse worker Isao Tabuchi headed for his company's newest acquisition: a refrigerator for humans.

From Barron's Aug. 25, 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

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

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

As you stand under it, its far-away shallow dome, supported on a single column almost white enough to be marble, seems to dwell in the dizziest depths of the blue.

From Italian Hours by Henry James

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 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

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

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 felt, not for the first time that summer, dizzied by the dissonance.

From Slate Oct. 20, 2020

Bertans dizzied his defenders, caught passes and turned them into three points so often that Sixers wing Mike Scott decided to face guard him 22 feet from the rim.

From Washington Post Dec. 5, 2019

You walk through, a bit dizzied, as the lines between reality and film begin to blur.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2019

The snowflakes whirled and dizzied in front of them.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

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

It was marked by a dizzying wave of defections and bitter internal conflicts.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

Just a few dizzying days later, they had struck the richest team sale in sports history.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Your first-class ticket could soon be second class as U.S. airlines add to their dizzying roster of seating options.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

She spoke with her hands, entertaining her two youngest children with fluid movements of such consummate grace that it seemed as though light music should be filtering from somewhere in the dizzying late afternoon heat.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy




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