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Recent Examples of disillusionment
However, the growing social media discussion suggests a broader disillusionment among young people.
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Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
Nuno’s remarks came after The Athletic reported a row with Edu, the club’s transfer guru and Arsenal’s former sporting director, was at the heart of his disillusionment.
—Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
This collective disillusionment carries profound implications for how America sees itself.
—Alice Lassman, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
This is an incident that genuinely occurred in 1977, but its atmosphere of capitalist disillusionment, of the downtrodden violently rising against the smug and the wealthy, immediately seizes the contemporary imagination.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
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
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, 2 Sep. 2025
While many dismissed it as burnout or disillusionment, assistant professors Justine Herve and Hyewon Oh suspected something more fundamental was at play.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Protagonist Naked Snake's disillusionment and descent into the villainous Big Boss is epic, tragic, and heartfelt.
—PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
Nuno’s remarks came after The Athletic reported a row with Edu, the club’s transfer guru and Arsenal’s former sporting director, was at the heart of his disillusionment.
—Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
This collective disillusionment carries profound implications for how America sees itself.
—Alice Lassman, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
This is an incident that genuinely occurred in 1977, but its atmosphere of capitalist disillusionment, of the downtrodden violently rising against the smug and the wealthy, immediately seizes the contemporary imagination.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Sep. 2025
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
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, 2 Sep. 2025
While many dismissed it as burnout or disillusionment, assistant professors Justine Herve and Hyewon Oh suspected something more fundamental was at play.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Protagonist Naked Snake's disillusionment and descent into the villainous Big Boss is epic, tragic, and heartfelt.
—PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disillusionment
Noun
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The volume’s power lies in its relentless impulse toward disenchantment.—
Elizabeth Kolbert,
New Yorker,
9 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Qassam’s popularity represented a shift in Mandate Arab politics, signaling discontent with the status quo.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Boone finally got the Yankees to their first World Series since 2009 last year, but a season of ups and downs in the Bronx has created enough discontent among fans for questions about the skipper's job security to be at least somewhat reasonable.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Disillusionment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disillusionment. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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