discombobulation

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for discombobulation
Noun
  • The campaign immediately received backlash and prompted confusion from doctors who dismissed its effectiveness.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Rookie Pat Bryant, split out wide, had his hands outstretched in confusion for six full seconds before the ball was actually snapped.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Defense Secretary, meanwhile, vanishes into a personal fog, thinking only of his daughter (Kaitlyn Dever), who lives in Chicago.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Particularly in the case of the latter two galaxies, the radio jets seem to be interacting with the intra-cluster medium, which is a thick fog of hot plasma that fills galaxy clusters, and this interaction is shaping both the jets and the radio rings.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The winds send stage trusses collapsing in a tangle of steel and spotlights as firefighters race to rescue fans and production crew members trapped.
    Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Oct. 2025
  • This bureaucratic tangle is so extreme that many European manufacturers are simply giving up.
    Veronique De Rugy, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Discombobulation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discombobulation. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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