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noun

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Verb
And at 47, Taylor appealed to voters disillusioned by career politicians who were looking for someone younger to steer their city in a new direction. Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025 In Ukraine, many are becoming disillusioned with the Trump administration. Natasha Frost, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Noun
World leaders must meet the challenge or risk fueling despair and disillusion. Juan Manuel Santos, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025 Neptune is the planet of spiritual ideals, creativity, disillusion, and divinity. Colin Bedell, Them, 14 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disillusion
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disillusion
Verb
  • Those who felt that part one would have been better suited to a television series will find little to disabuse them of that notion in this installment, which intercuts among its disparate characters and story strands even more rapidly.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Doing so would disabuse Iranian officials of any notion that Biden officials’ past criticism of Trump’s maximum pressure approach means that sanctions will simply be permitted to weaken or lapse in the absence of a deal.
    Michael Singh, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2021
Verb
  • By the time Moynihan’s second paper came out, many white liberals, distracted by the war in Vietnam and disenchanted by Black militancy, had given up on the crusade for civil rights.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Sylvester was already disenchanted with the growing inequality in the valley and the environmental cost of all the energy needed to power crypto, AI and data centers.
    Nicholas Riccardi, Chicago Tribune, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Trump's tariffs in particular have injected broad uncertainty into the economy, with some businesses already passing those additional costs to consumers, who have been rushing to buy big-ticket items in anticipation of higher prices, according to JPMorgan analysts.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2025
  • Voters have been growing discontented with the president’s policies as his sweeping tariffs have fueled chaos and uncertainty in the volatile global economy.
    Callie Patteson, The Washington Examiner, 27 Apr. 2025

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