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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.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disorienting
Adjective
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Despite these extraordinary gains, recent research published in PNAS Nexus highlights two deeply perplexing contradictions in women’s psychological well-being: the paradox of declining female happiness and the paradox of the contented female worker.—
Ximena Araya-Fischel,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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Queen’s habit of grinning in intense huddles or after a bad practice is both endearing and perplexing.—
Lindsay Schnell,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Researchers are particularly focused on unraveling the puzzling interplay between gas content, magma pressure and lava flow dynamics.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
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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.—
Jason Liebowitz,
The Atlantic,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Last month’s announcement is truly baffling, as this was a core part of Southwest’s strategy and business identity.—
Marisa Elrick,
Baltimore Sun,
31 Mar. 2025
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Of course, not everyone can get on the WrestleMania 41 card, but how a top act like Zayn could be left off is truly baffling. Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The ominous thriller received a second trailer on Tuesday (April 1) as the Toronto singer/actor took viewers further into his bewildering odyssey.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
1 Apr. 2025
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But for those of us who consider a walk of over a half-mile a squandered opportunity to knock a golf ball hither and yon, Los Angeles offers a bewildering array of worthy courses to explore for players of all levels.—
David Weiss,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Religion is the topic most likely to cause offense in India today, though the code is ambiguous on this point too.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
3 Apr. 2025
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One thing that is not ambiguous is that the spirit is drawing Mia into its world a little at a time.—
Katie Rife,
Vulture,
31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Now physicists are connecting those unknowable mathematical systems with an increasing number of physical ones and thereby beginning to map out the hard boundary of knowability in their field as well.—
Charlie Wood,
Wired News,
6 Apr. 2025
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The collective result, in this telling, is a new Trump Administration with a vast potential for power and limited constraint, whose future is unknowable but seems certain, one way or another, to leave a profound imprint on American life.—
Matthew Karp,
Harper's Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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When technology changes so quickly that even Millennials are shaking their heads at Gen Z’s incomprehensible habits, what chance do ageing parents have to stay a step ahead of their kids?—
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Even though arrests have been made, first-degree murder charges have been filed and the victim laid to rest, this case remains an incomprehensible display of human malice.—
Matt Lavietes,
NBC News,
8 Mar. 2025
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“Disorienting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disorienting. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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