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
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2025
Additionally, the general public came to mistrust and reject nuclear energy projects, further disillusioned by the Three Mile Island disaster.
—Time, 15 July 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
Inside ministries, security services, and even state-run media, there are officials who are disillusioned.
—Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2025
Additionally, the general public came to mistrust and reject nuclear energy projects, further disillusioned by the Three Mile Island disaster.
—Time, 15 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disillusion
Verb
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By a similar token, that stark visual language — complicated by Zhao’s stately framing and related inclination toward surveillance-like interior shots that suggest the presence of a ghost looking down — helps to disabuse the drama of any potential staginess.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
30 Aug. 2025
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And the refusal to be disabused by data suggests a deep instinct that vaccination in general is just too unnatural to be trusted — a very human impulse, clearly, but not one that can guide public health.—
Ross Douthat,
Mercury News,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But things get a bit heavier in the second half of the clip as Maron confronts his disillusionment, both on a political and personal level.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
4 Sep. 2025
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The phrase was coined in 1995 as part of a graph that Gartner analyst Jackie Fenn used to illustrate how inflated expectations can lead to a period of disillusionment.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
2 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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The industry’s changing priorities and shaky quality assurance have left her disenchanted by the business.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
11 Aug. 2025
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The neatness of the suitcase this girl is packing is really disenchanting me to her rom-com-protagonist likability.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
1 Aug. 2025
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Amid the regulatory uncertainty, some pharmacies have said that access to the shots may vary state-by-state and may require a prescription.—
Jon Haworth,
ABC News,
5 Sep. 2025
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This is one of the key points causing uncertainty about access.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Disillusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disillusion. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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