discombobulate

Never take a result for granted at the Crucible; high stakes can discombobulate the very best.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

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

From Washington Times ● May 30, 2023

Perhaps he was trying to gain some sort of edge, to distract and discombobulate his opponent.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2022

Alfred Hollander, for instance, is so desperate for authenticity that he randomly screams just to discombobulate passing strangers for a moment.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022

Oh, Canada, dear Canada, we shall not discombobulate Ourselves concerning JONATHAN.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 by Various

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

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

In fact, they're all so discombobulated by this thing that some of them are making monumental political gaffes trying to deal with it.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2025

And that's precisely why I was left emotionally discombobulated when I found out that my parents had secretly gotten divorced.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

The one downside is that NFL players aren’t used to kicking off in the morning—which is only marginally more discombobulating than San Francisco’s two trips this season to the East Coast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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

This time, chart-topping albums and touring aren’t the discombobulating affair they were nearly 30 years ago, when their second album, “Dude Ranch,” went gold.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2025

"It was very discombobulating because they just carried on with their shift," said Greenwood.

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2024

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