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

The commander, known on the battlefield as Oleksandr, flips a switch to activate the jammer which interferes with the drone’s radar; it’s the equivalent of shining a bright light in someone’s eye to disorient them.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024

The story uses sporadic live-action scenes to unnerve and disorient players and make them question whether they can really trust what they’re seeing.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2023

“The Willows” instead aims to disorient the audience, through improvisation and light games, until the mystery centers on us.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2022

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 Keyhoe, Donald E. (Donald Edward)

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

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

Often they are partly paralyzed and emaciated, she said, because the lead disorients the birds, making them incapable of hunting.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2018

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

Certainly, I felt a bit like Odysseus as I crept — drained, disoriented and trailing popcorn crumbs like Ithican sand — out into the sun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Tolerant readers will delight in the digressive nature of this inventive book, though others may be disoriented by a story that drastically switches gears before concluding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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

He was also newly rich and newly disoriented: one week he was broke and squatting in his cousins flat and the next he had millions of naira in his bank account.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The effect is disorienting at first, as perception precedes interpretation and sensation outruns speech.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

But the expectations after a year-defining hit were real, if subtly disorienting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

It’s all so thrilling, so disorienting, so terrifying.

From Slate ● May 8, 2026

Being displaced from your home is inconvenient and disorienting.

From MarketWatch ● May 5, 2026

It was greatly disorienting to be uprooted so suddenly and without explanation.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela