- present participle of disorient.
disorienting
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Ross's murder and the disorienting mission ultimately confused everyone, with the round table being the most random of the series so far.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
“A Ghost in Your Ear” offers a less ambitious but viscerally engaging illustration of how the ear, and the mind, can play disorienting and devastating tricks on you.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
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
Their smiles were bright, and they gave us the thumbs-up as we rolled past them, as if they had known us from somewhere else, which just reinforced my disorienting feeling of familiarity.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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