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
Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2025
Having pitched their idea to Marvel and DC — then the zenith of all things comics — Eastman and Laird were left disillusioned by the business of mainstream publishing.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2024
Harold James, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
Then came President Kais Saied, an uncharismatic constitutional lawyer, who was elected in 2019 on a populist anti-corruption platform that played to Tunisians’ post-revolutionary disillusion with political gridlock and economic stagnation.
—Ian Bremmer, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
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Verb
Fed up and disillusioned, just three months after Danni's death, Farquhar resigned from the sheriff's office.
—Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2025
Having pitched their idea to Marvel and DC — then the zenith of all things comics — Eastman and Laird were left disillusioned by the business of mainstream publishing.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
Eventually, however, this optimism gave way to complacency, then doubts about the benefits of globalization and increasing disillusion among those left behind (notably European farmers).
—Harold James, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
Then came President Kais Saied, an uncharismatic constitutional lawyer, who was elected in 2019 on a populist anti-corruption platform that played to Tunisians’ post-revolutionary disillusion with political gridlock and economic stagnation.
—Ian Bremmer, TIME, 19 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disillusion
Verb
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This did nothing to disabuse fans and media of the notion that its executive team is shadowy.—
James Horncastle,
The Athletic,
30 Dec. 2024
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For true believers in the cult of social justice, even Mangum’s confession will not disabuse them of their belief that those who are born into the wrong identities are the illegitimate beneficiaries of generational theft.—
The Editors,
National Review,
17 Dec. 2024
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The huge shift in such a short time suggests that some swing voters are already disenchanted with Trump.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
29 Jan. 2025
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Despite the new investments and programming on the public side, some regulars are disenchanted by the developments at PowMow, primarily because of the privatization of two of the formerly public lifts and the increase in pass prices.—
Elycia Rubin,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Even with all of this uncertainty, AI offers hope — a new blueprint and an opportunity to reimagine and reconstruct the very foundations of content creation.—
Solo Ceesay,
Rolling Stone,
26 Feb. 2025
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Farther north, Friends of Acadia — the philanthropic partner of Acadia National Park in Maine — says job cuts and hiring delays have added new layers of uncertainty to the park's summer plans.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Disillusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disillusion. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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