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
Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Luckily, there are several strategies available to help businesses avoid being disillusioned by their AI investments.
—Patrick (pj) Jean, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
Roger Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
Some more mundane elements of the military lifestyle are also contributing to rising disillusion within the warrior caste.
—Gil Barndollar, Vox, 1 Sep. 2024
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Verb
At the time, many white nationalists in the 1970s and 1980s were disillusioned by the U.S. failure to win the Vietnam War and wanted to exact a kind of revenge.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Luckily, there are several strategies available to help businesses avoid being disillusioned by their AI investments.
—Patrick (pj) Jean, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024
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Their relationship lasted 414 days, brief enough for disillusion not to set in.
—Roger Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
Some more mundane elements of the military lifestyle are also contributing to rising disillusion within the warrior caste.
—Gil Barndollar, Vox, 1 Sep. 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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For starters, we should be disabused of the canard that an incumbent president would be handcuffed in discharging constitutional duties if subject to prosecution.Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 4 Dec. 2024
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The failures of the January transfer window, when O’Neil was confident of adding a striker to his squad, only to discover in the final days of the window that Wolves would not sanction any of the deals on the table, left the former Bournemouth boss disenchanted with life at Molineux.Steve Madeley, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
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The promotion, aimed at foreigners disenchanted with their day-to-day lives, offers residences for as low as just €1, or about $1.Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
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Leaders grappling with technological upheaval, political change, economic uncertainty, and shifting societal norms may be tempted to seek novel solutions.Gena Cox, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
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There’s also the uncertainty that a potential breakaway league could bring.Matt Woosnam, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024
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“Disillusion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disillusion. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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