disorient

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

She’s not afraid to disorient an audience — or to disgust them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2023

After a series of early missteps, Russia reportedly moved some electronic-warfare systems to the front lines in Ukraine, aiming to disorient and disable Ukrainian drones before they could reach their targets.

From Washington Times ● May 20, 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

She said the quiet has been smothered by the whir of the mine and created an “ecological dead zone” that disorients wildlife.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

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

This soul-scarring movie unfolds as though under a trancelike spell of its own making, one that disorients as much as it hypnotizes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 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

The hovering putti Titian portrays seem, like Europa, disoriented by the powers of a primal world in which Zeus is like an untamed force of nature, beyond human control or understanding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Prior to going missing Smyth had contacted rescuers from Tiganesti to say he was disoriented and physically exhausted.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Mary is disoriented and desperate, and the mere sight of her assures Sam that whatever favor Mary asks for, Sam can attach strings to.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

“I was disoriented at first. It’s hard to step out of that go-go mentality.”

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 22, 2026

Sick and disoriented, I'm able to form only one thought: Peeta Mellark just saved my life.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

“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

Her 2024 follow-up, “Real Americans,” sparked a 17-way bidding war for what this paper called “a disorienting, masterful, shape-shifting novel about multiracial identity.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

Steam hung in the air, like the bathhouse back at Camp Jupiter, except bathhouses usually didn’t have thunderstorms crackling across the ceiling, lighting the room in disorienting flashes.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan