discombobulating

present participle of discombobulate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for discombobulating
Verb
  • That the Red Wings needed to attach a second-round pick to offload his money last summer was baffling at the time and looks even worse now.
    Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • And aren’t our real-life romantic complications bewildering enough?
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Its ginormous investments in higher-value, tech-heavy sectors from smartphones to autos to semiconductors to biotechnology are disrupting the global landscape at bewildering speed.
    William Pesek, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Colorado opened its 2025 season with a puzzling 27-20 loss to Georgia Tech on Friday night.
    Shane Shoemaker, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Tyler, the Creator has turned 2025’s Camp Flog Gnaw announcement into a puzzling quest.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The criminal justice system In early April, a man failed to show up for his pretrial conference in Canyon County, perplexing his lawyer.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • In such a large, complex, dangerous, and confusing world, can one person make a difference to anything?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • These fictional AIs tapped into our deepest worries about healthcare—long waits at the doctor's office, confusing medical information and the wish for constant health guidance.
    Sanath Chilakala, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cinematographer James Friend creates a purgatorial realm of disorienting angles and neon lights too sickly to be beautiful, the nightmarishness further underlined by Volker Bertelman’s thundering score.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025
  • This was not a hoax, exactly; Baron makes a convincing case that Lowell believed passionately in his grandiose claims, and that many members of the public wanted to believe in them, at a time of disorienting change.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Discombobulating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discombobulating. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.

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