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
The commander, known on the battlefield as Oleksandr, flips a switch to activate the jammer which interferes with the drone’s radar; it’s the equivalent of shining a bright light in someone’s eye to disorient them.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
He uses overhead shots and camera angles and plays with focus to displace or disorient viewers.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023
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
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 Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe
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
No work of Lek’s, however, disorients quite like “Refuge,” a three-panel painting completed in 2023 that extends to a width of 12 feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
Goldin disorients the reader by deploying multiple timelines — the present, several days ago and two years earlier, when Liv told the police she was being harassed by a stalker.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
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
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
"If someone stops sweating, becomes disoriented or collapses, it can quickly become a medical emergency."
From BBC ● May 28, 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
Marco rubs the shimmering powder from his face, which has reverted to its true form and he is too disoriented to change it.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
It’s all so thrilling, so disorienting, so terrifying.
From Slate ● May 8, 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
It’s a disorienting sight for newcomers who have just passed gas pumps and rows of soda and Slim Jims and tugged on various cooler doors in search of the secret handle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Clancy had so much control over his powers that I didn’t even have time to feel the usual disorienting rush of thoughts and memories.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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