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discombobulate

[dis-kuhm-bob-yuh-layt] / ˌdɪs kəmˈbɒb jəˌleɪt /


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Did their hyper-aggressive approach discombobulate their opponents, or themselves?

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2024

The overall aim, León and Pascual concurred, will be to discombobulate internal and external enemies.

From Washington Times ● May 30, 2023

You have to discombobulate them in some way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2021

This, Keynes warned, could discombobulate the human race’s neurological wiring, because mankind has evolved through many millennia for toil and stress.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2018

Would she let an external event discombobulate her in such a nervous disorder?

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills

Little Island discombobulates many of the ways in which the body physically adapts itself to the pulse of the city.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021

It further discombobulates the critical mind by resembling neither jazz nor classical music.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 15, 2019

Jevon Carter, West Virginia: The Mountaineers get a lot of attention for their “Press Virginia” scheme that discombobulates opponents, but it helps to have a relentless and skilled presence leading the way at both ends.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2017

Exposure to light, especially to the blue light of digital devices, discombobulates the clockwork.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2016

Walther’s improvisatory sounding song discombobulates the masters, who don’t know what to make of it.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2014

Bryan’s character is a big part of the movie’s appeal; he’s a scruffy, discombobulated everyman who figures out solutions on the fly, not a boringly cool and composed slaying machine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

My relationship with self-care is already so discombobulated.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

Moving sharply, Djokovic used his superior tennis IQ to carefully construct points in a way which Alcaraz could not compute - similar to how he discombobulated the Spaniard in last year's quarter-finals.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026

They hugged one another and recounted slightly discombobulated stories of bullets ricocheting off cellphones and even someone’s teeth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

He didn’t look angry or demented, just sort of discombobulated.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Fielder is the creator of the TV series “The Rehearsal” and “Nathan for You” who constructs discombobulating sham realities that include bogus businesses such as Dumb Starbucks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

For many in the industry, Liniger’s stature as a woman CEO was as radical and discombobulating as Remax’s business model.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

At times, it’s a discombobulating experience, and the film would surely benefit from giving its ideas more space to breathe.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

"It was hugely discombobulating for Washington," says Karen Hao, an AI journalist.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

To escape a stagnating and a somewhat discombobulating loss of herself, she grabbed her sketchbook and drew the exact likeness of her child with little time and effort.

From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Steven (Steven David Justin) Sills


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