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
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
Juan Manuel Santos, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
Neptune is the planet of spiritual ideals, creativity, disillusion, and divinity.
—Colin Bedell, Them, 14 Jan. 2025
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disillusion
Verb
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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
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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
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Sylvester was already disenchanted with the growing inequality in the valley and the environmental cost of all the energy needed to power cryptocurrency, AI and data centers.—
Nicholas Riccardi,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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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
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But that uncertainty is not undercutting Paramount’s ambitions.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
9 May 2025
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Other Asian countries, like Vietnam, which will be subject to high (but still lower-than-China) tariff rates, may benefit from the uncertainty.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
9 May 2025
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“Disillusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disillusion. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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