disorient
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“Kiko always tends to disorient people somehow,” Deanna shares.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Air defenses’ large-scale use of spoofing, or transmitting fake GPS signals to send drones off course, can disorient civilian air traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
He uses overhead shots and camera angles and plays with focus to displace or disorient viewers.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 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
For Myriam Gurba, fog is a condition that disorients and ensnares.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
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
Often they are partly paralyzed and emaciated, she said, because the lead disorients the birds, making them incapable of hunting.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2018
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
Just when he’s got you disoriented and distracted, he strikes, boring you to death.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Gina Davis, a Pasadena schoolteacher, was worried when she learned that a peacock who had lived in her neighborhood for years was found disoriented and wouldn’t eat or drink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
One, Owen, was found disoriented in the woods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
"If someone stops sweating, becomes disoriented or collapses, it can quickly become a medical emergency."
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
The road out front looked strangely deserted except for a few kids in raggedy jackets and two disoriented goats.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
It’s also important to remember that grief is disorienting.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026
There is something genuinely disorienting about reading all of this in a Senate oversight letter and arriving at Taco Bell as the comparatively lucid party.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
It was disorienting to go from a crowded prison cell to watching Fourth of July fireworks with my family over In-N-Out burgers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
Finding solutions to math problems at an accelerating pace this way is exciting, if a bit disorienting.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 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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