as in to disabuse
to free from mistaken beliefs or foolish hopes
we were disillusioned when we saw how the movie star acted in real life
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Recent Examples of disillusion
Mary Crossan, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
World leaders must meet the challenge or risk fueling despair and disillusion.
—Juan Manuel Santos, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Still, the decision has sparked some outrage among those in a fanbase that have been disappointed with the product on the field and have become disillusioned with ownership, particularly in recent years.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 13 Aug. 2025
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Verb
These leaders pose a significant risk, disillusion us the most, and undercut the argument that character is essential to success.
—Mary Crossan, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
World leaders must meet the challenge or risk fueling despair and disillusion.
—Juan Manuel Santos, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
She is utterly disillusioned with the ugly transformations of leftist leaders, such as Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua and Evo Morales of Bolivia, into unprincipled strongmen.
—Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2025
Still, the decision has sparked some outrage among those in a fanbase that have been disappointed with the product on the field and have become disillusioned with ownership, particularly in recent years.
—Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disillusion
Verb
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Both Anne and Benjamin are quickly disabused of any illusion that their father might have taken them seriously as contributors to the business, let alone potential successors.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
25 Sep. 2025
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Pre-positioning munitions, as well as stockpiles of energy, medical, and food supplies, also could help disabuse Chinese leaders of the notion that Taiwan can be taken quickly and cheaply.—
PHILIP H. GORDON,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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But Neptune retrograde in Aries brings awareness to confusion, fantasy and disillusionment.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
23 Sep. 2025
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Few outlets have benefited from the Democratic disillusionment with legacy media than the Bulwark.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The volume’s power lies in its relentless impulse toward disenchantment.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
New Yorker,
9 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Reporters Mithil Aggarwal, Janhvi Bhojwani and Jay Ganglani dove into both protests where young people disenchanted by corruption and a lack of jobs took to the streets to demand radical economic and political reforms.—
Christian Orozco,
NBC news,
16 Sep. 2025
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Indeed, multiple reports have painted the generation as disenchanted with the dating scene.—
Chloe Berger,
SELF,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Scientists are reshaping quantum uncertainty to sidestep the restriction imposed by the famous Heisenberg uncertainty principle.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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That approach breaks with decades of precedent, when shutdowns were disruptive but temporary, and has injected new uncertainty into an already tense standoff.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Disillusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disillusion. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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