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as in bewildering
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty
troops disoriented by the sudden change in battle plans
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Recent Examples of disorienting
Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
His face is always changing, always disorienting her.
—Honor Jones, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2024
The filmmaking craft is a considerable step up here from Smile, with returning DP Charlie Sarroff making clever use of disorienting angles and mirror shots, and again flipping the frame upside-down as Skye begins unraveling.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
Adopting a minimalist style that employes lots of tight framing, director Randall Okita and his cinematographers (Jordan Oram and Jackson Parrell) use the camera to mirror Sophie’s impairment, creating for a claustrophobic and disorienting aesthetic.
—Travis Bean, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
The disorienting tone is set immediately by pilot director Jordan Vogt-Roberts.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Oct. 2024
Over the past four decades, Chile has made a disorienting journey from state of terror to hopeful democracy to queasy malaise.
—Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2024
Verb
The spiraling hall-of-mirrors approach can sometime be disorienting but Baker’s sheer conviction carries it across.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for disorienting
Adjective
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The apparent identity mix-up is a key point of confusion in a detailed and often perplexing set of allegations that Webb is lodging publicly against Jones and Thao.—
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Few stories are as perplexing and tragic as that of Mary the elephant.—
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Researchers are particularly focused on unraveling the puzzling interplay between gas content, magma pressure and lava flow dynamics.—
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Almost two years into his ordeal, Gould learned of an initiative at the National Institutes of Health that focuses on solving the country’s most puzzling medical cases.—
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Most baffling of all, Ye claimed that fake children had been installed in his home to corrupt his children.—
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Then the other baffling interaction of the episode happens.—
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Sterling is both a blank slate, a character beginning a new phase of his life, and someone who’s facing a bewildering number of options, including sticking around, leaving town or returning to a life of crime.—
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That car heist unleashed a bewildering series of encounters.—
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Issues like ambiguous requirements cause misalignment and rework, while inadequate testing environments delay validation and debugging.—
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So this is in a very ambiguous state in an ambiguous country, and her mother’s illness is ambiguous.—
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The scene makes Perkins crack up — Death looks tired and haggard, his job is never done (especially this week), and while the father-son may have escaped this round, their paths will cross in some unknowable way in the future.—
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Whether the next conclave will elect a candidate committed to Vatican II or swing back to traditionalism is unknowable.—
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This is something incomprehensible to any human being.—
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The loss of Oakland’s MLB team and then the city’s greatest MLB son in the same year is an almost incomprehensible loss for fans like Peters, who feel abandoned by the league.—
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“Disorienting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disorienting. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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