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[diz-ee] / ˈdɪz i /




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Carmen Schober, the profile’s author, ignored the way members of Schmidt’s online forum, Skinni Société, commiserated about their hair loss and inability to stand without getting dizzy.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

If using a fan, drink water, avoid directing it continuously at the face while sleeping, and stop using it if it makes you feel hotter, dizzy or unwell.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

As a result of the physical exertion, the former chef claims that she “became dizzy, began choking and gasping for air, and required assistance from security personnel, who intervened by providing water and aid.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 25, 2026

"At first I just felt dizzy -- it didn't occur to me it was an earthquake, I'd never experienced that before," Carmel Delgado, a 47‑year‑old economist, told AFP.

From Barron's Jun. 8, 2026

I was still dizzy from bleeding and tired from all that previous running.

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

And I think her inside ear is making her dizzier than ever.

From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles

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

She dizzies him with quotes from Erich Fromm.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Eve.The precipice of ill Down this colossal nature, dizzies me: And, hark! the starry harmony remote Seems measuring the heights from whence he fell.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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

From Slate Oct. 20, 2020

You walk through, a bit dizzied, as the lines between reality and film begin to blur.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2019

It was hard for dizzied news consumers to know what, or whom, to believe.

From Washington Post May 14, 2017

At Easter high mass I was dizzied by the mucous perfume of white flowers at the celebration of rebirth.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

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

In less than a month, Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison has exhibited a dizzying range of emotions as the goal line for the coveted $111-billion Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

But the dizzying rise in computer equipment exports from Mexico -- the largest US trading partner -- is doing the opposite.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

Stock futures were mostly lower, with AI stocks selling off as investors questioned whether the dizzying trade that has powered markets this year has more room to run.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

I’m trying to concentrate on the dizzying landscape that rushes past us.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu




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