disorient
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To add a touch of mystery, contestants will travel and sleep on a coach with blacked-out windows to disorient them.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
Participants in full kit first workout on treadmill climbers and other gym machines, then crawl through the maze as strobe lights, smoke and loud noises are added to disorient them.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
The story uses sporadic live-action scenes to unnerve and disorient players and make them question whether they can really trust what they’re seeing.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2023
“The Willows” instead aims to disorient the audience, through improvisation and light games, until the mystery centers on us.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
Here on earth, orienting yourself depends on the feeling you get from the pull of gravity, plus your vision. just being blindfolded is enough to disorient some people.
From The Flying Saucers are Real by Keyhoe, Donald E. (Donald Edward)
Some moments play out in too many close-ups, suffocating the scene; an occasional edit inadvertently disorients our sense of place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
But the more likely problem is that social media presents a feed or timeline of content that disorients its consumers and unmoors them from reality.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 10, 2020
Rip has been given an impossible gift, though it is one that disorients him.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2020
This soul-scarring movie unfolds as though under a trancelike spell of its own making, one that disorients as much as it hypnotizes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2020
The beauty disorients many of the players, because when the gong sounds, most of them seem like they’re trying to wake from a dream.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
As a result, a visitor can easily feel disoriented, or in my case, a touch deconstructed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2026
Mary is disoriented and desperate, and the mere sight of her assures Sam that whatever favor Mary asks for, Sam can attach strings to.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
“I was disoriented at first. It’s hard to step out of that go-go mentality.”
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026
The woman appears to have tried to lead the disoriented animal away from the shopping street.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
He had never told himself his own story, never allowed himself to reflect on it, because he was too disoriented by his deportation and then by the suddenness of his new life in Lagos.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“When everyday tasks suddenly require help, or take three times as long because of language or unfamiliar systems, it can feel disorienting in a way that catches people off guard.”
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
Being displaced from your home is inconvenient and disorienting.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
Plucked from a previous life as a working actor, Richard Gadd experienced a disorienting whirlwind less than two years ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
As disorienting as wild market moves feel, people who invest actively should be relieved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
My words came slapping back at me in a disorienting echo.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
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