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[diz-ee] / ˈdɪz i /




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If using a fan, drink water, avoid directing it continuously at the face while sleeping, and stop using it if it makes you feel hotter, dizzy or unwell.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

Drop too many heavy-hitters at once, and the viewer will be dizzy in seconds, watching cartoon ruby slippers dance in a circle around their head.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2026

I felt dizzy and short of breath before sprawling out on our mattress, which was still covered in plastic.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2026

"At first I just felt dizzy -- it didn't occur to me it was an earthquake, I'd never experienced that before," Carmel Delgado, a 47‑year‑old economist, told AFP.

From Barron's Jun. 8, 2026

I closed my eyes for a moment, feeling rather dizzy.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

“They can march around the ring as long as they want, until they are so dizzy — dizzier then they already are — that they fall down.”

From New York Times Apr. 28, 2019

Then again, maybe he’s just woozy from all the money he’s made since buying the club, and the thought of taller piles make him dizzier.

From Washington Times Aug. 29, 2018

The injections don’t change how much pain I experience, but the next day I wake up even dizzier, with the woozy sensation that my body is rocking in space.

From The Guardian Nov. 17, 2016

In effect, censorship created plot, and in the process yielded one of the greatest of American film genres: thirties romantic comedy, including the dizzier versions celebrated as screwball comedy.

From The New Yorker May 2, 2016

Puffing loudly, Harry, Ron, and Hermione climbed the tightly spiraling steps, getting dizzier and dizzier, until at last they heard the murmur of voices above them and knew they had reached the classroom.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

She was auditioning for the role of Margot, the dizziest of the sorority sisters, a woman who has deep conversations with a Chihuahua.

From New York Times May 10, 2023

Their conclusion: “We think we have X-rayed the dizziest — and this will amaze you, as it did us, the dirtiest — community in America.”

From Washington Post Jan. 9, 2016

It’s hypnotic in its empty-headed positivity, an exercise in teenybopper mythologizing that accidentally doubles as a deeply sad deconstruction of fame at its dizziest and most ephemeral.

From Slate Jan. 23, 2014

In early March, ARM's shares reached their highest point since the dizziest days of the dotcom boom 13 years ago, pushing its market value to $20.3bn.

From The Guardian Mar. 19, 2013

Notwithstanding the breathless condition in which he had arrived at the station house, his return journey was accomplished at his dizziest speed.

From Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie

There is no dizzies, there is no cramps, there is no menopause.

From The Guardian Mar. 25, 2011

She dizzies him with quotes from Erich Fromm.

From Time Magazine Archive

The number teases, dazzles the mind and even dizzies it, but that does not add up to understanding.

From Time Magazine Archive

The St. Dunstan stood almost at the summit where Nob Hill slants obliquely to north and east, and Powell Street dizzies down the steep descent to North Beach and the Bay.

From The Million-Dollar Suitcase by Alice MacGowan

The whirl so dizzies, she breathes short; The serpent spirals seem to fold Laocöon-like about her limbs.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 7, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

As Jamieson Gibson-Park picked and went from the base, Lowe swerved out of his hiding spot and past a dizzied Chandler Cunningham-South.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2025

I felt, not for the first time that summer, dizzied by the dissonance.

From Slate Oct. 20, 2020

You walk through, a bit dizzied, as the lines between reality and film begin to blur.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2019

It was hard for dizzied news consumers to know what, or whom, to believe.

From Washington Post May 14, 2017

As I cling tightly to the scarecrow’s legs, I look down, and I am dizzied by vertigo.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Your first-class ticket could soon be second class as U.S. airlines add to their dizzying roster of seating options.

From MarketWatch Aug. 13, 2026

In less than a month, Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison has exhibited a dizzying range of emotions as the goal line for the coveted $111-billion Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

British prime ministers come and go at such a dizzying pace that it takes longer for most outsiders to learn their names than it does for them to serve their term.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Thirty-year-old Bardella has had a dizzying career up the RN ranks, but he was always measured about his prospects of becoming president.

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

It took a second to get it — Mary Lou went right when Tane swung left and they twirled around in a dizzying circle for a second.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray




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