vertiginous
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To call the experience of seeing it vertiginous, dizzying, eye-opening and a bit frustrating would be an understatement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Arguably the most significant development in efforts to curb climate change -- the vertiginous cost reductions of solar and wind power, batteries and electric vehicles -- was seeded long before Paris.
From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025
One of the great theatrical speeches written in the last 25 years, this vertiginous paean to America’s pastime was no doubt a factor in O’Hare’s win.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025
The film’s greatest accomplishment is that pervasive feeling of wrongness, of danger, a vertiginous sense that there’s no safe haven left.
From Slate • Oct. 29, 2024
She finds Vivian’s parents’ full names in the passenger records log— Patrick and Mary Power from County Galway, Ireland—and feels a vertiginous thrill, as if fictional characters have suddenly sprung to life.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
Vocabulary lists containing vertiginous
The Milagro Beanfield War
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Orphan Train
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"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbus Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges
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