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Recent Examples of disillusionment
Americans are already feeling the hurt, leading to disillusionment.
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Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 5 Mar. 2026
Some Chinese students pursuing their degrees in the United States have brought home stories of disillusionment.
—Lavender Au, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
But after a creeping sense of disillusionment with Beijing’s policies, the 50-year-old made the choice to risk everything – including his own family – and flee to the United States.
—Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
In China, an increasing number of young women are choosing partners generated on demand by AI programs, either in response to the societal pressure of getting married or to avoid the disillusionment brought on by real-world relationships.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
Japan has been struggling with a pervasive sense of stagnation and disillusionment born of decades of deflation, wage stagnation, demographic decline and a creeping loss of confidence in the country’s place in the world.
—Jeff Kingston, Time, 15 Feb. 2026
The end of his life is a story of unremarkable middle-class comforts amid an aura of disillusionment.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
But the art of Violette and his cohort tapped into a deeper disillusionment, the kind of corrosive cynicism that pervades a culture in which any sense of possibility for a non-horrifying future has been foreclosed.
—Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
Sadly, Ilya may still have to do this, as foreshadowed by his brother’s homophobia and his disillusionment with Russia writ large.
—Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 5 Mar. 2026
Some Chinese students pursuing their degrees in the United States have brought home stories of disillusionment.
—Lavender Au, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
But after a creeping sense of disillusionment with Beijing’s policies, the 50-year-old made the choice to risk everything – including his own family – and flee to the United States.
—Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026
In China, an increasing number of young women are choosing partners generated on demand by AI programs, either in response to the societal pressure of getting married or to avoid the disillusionment brought on by real-world relationships.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2026
Japan has been struggling with a pervasive sense of stagnation and disillusionment born of decades of deflation, wage stagnation, demographic decline and a creeping loss of confidence in the country’s place in the world.
—Jeff Kingston, Time, 15 Feb. 2026
The end of his life is a story of unremarkable middle-class comforts amid an aura of disillusionment.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
But the art of Violette and his cohort tapped into a deeper disillusionment, the kind of corrosive cynicism that pervades a culture in which any sense of possibility for a non-horrifying future has been foreclosed.
—Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
Sadly, Ilya may still have to do this, as foreshadowed by his brother’s homophobia and his disillusionment with Russia writ large.
—Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disillusionment
Noun
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Yet the search for solutions resulted only in more disenchantment.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
5 Mar. 2026
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Public disenchantment with the Iraq war did much to power Barack Obama’s unlikely victory four years later.—
Steve Chapman,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2026
Noun
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That discontent then feeds domestic politics, producing anti-globalization policies like tariffs; that, in turn, feeds back into the international system, deepening instability.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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And there is no setting more emblematic of freedom—and its discontents—than the campus, where tenure is supposed to protect the intellectual liberty of faculty and students living independently for the first time try on new ideas and identities.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Furthermore, some symptoms, such as anxiety, mood changes, trouble sleeping and overall discontentment with life, can persist for three to six months or more following the initial withdrawal period.—
Emma Fenske,
The Conversation,
12 Feb. 2026
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Further discontentment also stemmed from Fennell’s general spearheading of the project, given her affinity for the salacious and the fact that the pic is not billed as a modern retelling.—
Tom Tapp,
Deadline,
13 Nov. 2025
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