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dizzy

[diz-ee] / ˈdɪz i /




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“He was disoriented, confused, dizzy, well before he collapsed. ... Matthew was demonstrating signs of a problem well before he collapsed, and they did nothing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

But one part of summer that most piqued our wide-eyed interest—that for all these years has felt like a dizzy dream—wasn’t on the campgrounds at all.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Feeling dizzy and unwell after cycling to work in Japan's punishing summer heat, warehouse worker Isao Tabuchi headed for his company's newest acquisition: a refrigerator for humans.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

"Next time, perhaps? I feel very dizzy now," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Samir was dizzy with thirst at every oasis.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

“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

Wilbur had been feeling dizzier and dizzier through this long, complimentary speech.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

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

His word was given, and it was always inspiring, emancipating, uplifting, heard in the valleys from the dizziest heights of vision; but force was not his to give.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

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

From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2011

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She dizzies him with quotes from Erich Fromm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Loosely I prod the table with a fork, My mind gapes, dizzies, ceases to work...

From Poems - First Series by J. C. (John Collings) Squire

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

Inexplicably, he found himself at LaGuardia Airport, so dizzied had he been by the experience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

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

Waves of attacks pounded down on Paris St.-Germain, now dizzied and wearied.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2024

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

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2020

I was dizzied and distracted by all the activity; they were completely in their element.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

The dizzying selloff has put many bonds underwater.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also warned that the dizzying pace of progress could go “very badly” and that humans could lose “control of the future to AI.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

But the rapid ascent to stardom has been dizzying for the 25-year-old actress.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

It was marked by a dizzying wave of defections and bitter internal conflicts.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

They climbed in tight, dizzying circles; Harry had never been up here before.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling




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