disenchantment

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Recent Examples of disenchantment The main question marks now surround the centre-back position and the right-sided No 10 role should Sarr’s disenchantment at being denied a move away affect his performances. — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026 The red notebook, written in flatter, grayer prose, is about her time in the British Communist Party and her ultimate disenchantment with it. — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 In between languid lake swims and sensual forest escapades, old crushes surface and new anxieties rear their heads in this deft portrait of millennial disenchantment. — Air Mail, 20 June 2026 The appeal for young people, experts say, seems to be twofold — a disenchantment with other institutions and with the growing loneliness of life lived on social media, together with a church that, starting with Pope Francis, has focused less on doctrine and more on social justice. — ABC News, 1 June 2026 With anthropological specificity, Nadar attends to the duality of enchantment and disenchantment accompanying the introduction and adoption of new technologies. — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026 Public disenchantment with that attitude is visible among his own supporters. — Josh Boak, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2026 Perhaps a new Death of a Salesman was always going to have an advantage earning our faith, given that its very essence has to do with belief and disenchantment, aspiration and back-breaking despair. — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026 The Bachelor’snext few years may hinge entirely on its ability to sell romance in an era defined, above all, by disenchantment. — Shamira Ibrahim, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disenchantment
Noun
  • Analysts cited by the Los Angeles Times described Latino shifts toward Trump as reflecting disillusionment with Democrats’ economic and immigration messaging, rather than a durable ideological conversion to Trumpism.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Campus protests, organized by 20-something college students, have come to define young Americans’ growing disillusionment.
    — Caitlin Dewey, Vox, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Tensions are expected to be high as the populists seek to stay in power despite widespread popular discontent.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Over his shoulder was an enormous portrait of the hatchet-wielding temperance crusader Carrie Nation, an icon of resistance to the excesses of the first Gilded Age, when similar discontent had roiled the prairies.
    — Kyle Paoletta, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

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“Disenchantment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disenchantment. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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