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[woo-zee, wooz-ee] / ˈwu zi, ˈwʊz i /


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"It's going to take me a little while before I'm up to stage performance level," she said, adding that medicines she's taking were making her light-headed and woozy.

From Barron's May 4, 2026

He wakes up woozy the next morning to find the title of that song written in black pen across his stomach.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 13, 2026

Over the woozy guitars of “Losing Myself,” she sings about disappearing into a toxic relationship — “I’m just a heart for your arrow” — while “Happy With You” contemplates her reflex for self-sabotage.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2025

On a woozy Monday afternoon, those sightseers who had assembled on the tower's second-floor viewing platform discovered a clever ruse: the telescopes could be used to spy on a beach volleyball match happening down below.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2024

“I feel so woozy and funny. I don’t know what’s the matter with me.”

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

The instrumentation became less tactile and more distanced with woozier synth-pop.

From Washington Post Mar. 29, 2022

But pop moves fast and a new, woozier kind of tune by the likes of Ariana Grande and Dua Lipa has made such coldly strident numbers seem old-fashioned.

From The Guardian Dec. 21, 2018

On the aptly named You’re Dead!, the artist’s fifth album, Flying Lotus steers into woozier, jazzier territory and brings listeners on a cartoon-paced trek through the afterlife.

From Newsweek

Since the novel is set in the woozier fringes of Southern California, many are the occasions for such misunderstanding.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Swimming” released last month, was his wooziest and most insular to date.

From New York Times Sep. 7, 2018

And say, that was the wooziest collection ever bunched together!

From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)

They made a very brave show of it until we got under weigh, and then they were led just about the wooziest dance you ever heard tell of.

From Sea-Hounds by Freeman, Lewis R.

Inside of two minutes Maggie has sold us four entrance tickets, and we're headed for the biggest and wooziest thriller to be found in the lot.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Ford, Sewell




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