disorient
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Air defenses’ large-scale use of spoofing, or transmitting fake GPS signals to send drones off course, can disorient civilian air traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
To add a touch of mystery, contestants will travel and sleep on a coach with blacked-out windows to disorient them.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2025
He uses overhead shots and camera angles and plays with focus to displace or disorient viewers.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2023
Electric lights can disorient them, causing turtles to head the wrong way on the beach instead of following light from the moon and stars.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 23, 2023
Here on earth, orienting yourself depends on the feeling you get from the pull of gravity, plus your vision. just being blindfolded is enough to disorient some people.
From The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe
Some moments play out in too many close-ups, suffocating the scene; an occasional edit inadvertently disorients our sense of place.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
No work of Lek’s, however, disorients quite like “Refuge,” a three-panel painting completed in 2023 that extends to a width of 12 feet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
Perhaps Cin felt that the obliqueness would create tension, but it mainly disorients the reader.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 3, 2021
But the more likely problem is that social media presents a feed or timeline of content that disorients its consumers and unmoors them from reality.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 10, 2020
The beauty disorients many of the players, because when the gong sounds, most of them seem like they’re trying to wake from a dream.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Just when he’s got you disoriented and distracted, he strikes, boring you to death.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Prior to going missing Smyth had contacted rescuers from Tiganesti to say he was disoriented and physically exhausted.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“We envisioned this narrow field of view where his enemies suddenly pop out of the fog, and this type of shot adds to the disoriented feeling.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
One, Owen, was found disoriented in the woods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
I was sitting on the floor, a human again—somehow back in my regular clothes, thank the gods—with six other guys who all looked disoriented, blinking and shaking wood shavings out of their hair.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
A collaged print by Liu Shiyuan presents a dizzying array of images—fruit, bees, jellyfish, shrouded figures, fabric samples—that is more disorienting than anything else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
“When everyday tasks suddenly require help, or take three times as long because of language or unfamiliar systems, it can feel disorienting in a way that catches people off guard.”
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
The day after an election can sometimes feel a little disorienting.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
Being displaced from your home is inconvenient and disorienting.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026
It took a day and a half of watching the tiny digits pile up: eye-numbing, disorienting work.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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