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[woo-zee, wooz-ee] / ˈwu zi, ˈwʊz i /


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“The Wrong Girls” comes to have its own wayward sense of internal logic, navigating off a slightly woozy compass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

"It's going to take me a little while before I'm up to stage performance level," she said, adding that medicines she's taking were making her light-headed and woozy.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

His lines are lazy, woozy, all-forgiving reportage about the seasons’ slow parade, the meandering ongoingness of our world: arrival, decay and the modest glory in between.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

A mother’s screams of pain carry a woozy double meaning in a thematically saturated scene in the World War II drama “Amrum.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

He stood up, feeling a little woozy from the images that had been swirling in his vision.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

The instrumentation became less tactile and more distanced with woozier synth-pop.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022

But pop moves fast and a new, woozier kind of tune by the likes of Ariana Grande and Dua Lipa has made such coldly strident numbers seem old-fashioned.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2018

On the aptly named You’re Dead!, the artist’s fifth album, Flying Lotus steers into woozier, jazzier territory and brings listeners on a cartoon-paced trek through the afterlife.

From Newsweek

Since the novel is set in the woozier fringes of Southern California, many are the occasions for such misunderstanding.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Swimming” released last month, was his wooziest and most insular to date.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2018

And say, that was the wooziest collection ever bunched together!

From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson

They made a very brave show of it until we got under weigh, and then they were led just about the wooziest dance you ever heard tell of.

From Sea-Hounds by Lewis R. Freeman

Inside of two minutes Maggie has sold us four entrance tickets, and we're headed for the biggest and wooziest thriller to be found in the lot.

From Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford




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