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dizzy

[diz-ee] / ˈdɪz i /




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In the birthplace of Venezuela's oil industry, thick black crude seeps through cracks in the earth, and the air is heavy with the smell of gas, leaving visitors dizzy.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

“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

"I can't be dizzy carrying around banjos, guitars and such on 5-inch heels - and you know that I'm going to be wearing them," she said in a video message.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

It was then that she first felt strange and dizzy.

From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr

“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

With his head growing dizzier, Joseph shut the door behind him and climbed up the stairs.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick

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

Notwithstanding the breathless condition in which he had arrived at the station house, his return journey was accomplished at his dizziest speed.

From Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie

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

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

The whirl so dizzies, she breathes short; The serpent spirals seem to fold Laocöon-like about her limbs.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 7, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Keely Hodgkinson stood with her eyes and mouth wide open in astonishment, hands fixed either side of a head dizzied by two laps that had changed everything.

From BBC ● May 22, 2024

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

They were dazzled and dizzied by the vision of the future they planned to share, which Lexie wanted so badly, sometimes, that she lay awake at night thinking about it.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

It’s a dizzying thought, the comet from Norristown sharing space with Man City stars like the Norwegian Thunder God Erling Haaland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The brilliance was provided by Razaullah, who produced a dizzying knock to breathe life into the third Test and lift the spirits of Pakistan supporters everywhere.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Rosales long dreamed of being invited to the Biennale, and the full circle nature of it, the Venice, California, to Venice, Italy, of it all, is dizzying.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Your first-class ticket could soon be second class as U.S. airlines add to their dizzying roster of seating options.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

I watched the emergency lights beyond Liam’s head pass with dizzying speed, tracking together like a single beam.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken




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