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The Black mustache didn’t end with the disillusionments of the post-civil-rights era.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2020

My life was littered with awkwardnesses, estrangements, mutual disillusionments, abandoned projects.

From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2016

The experience provides an allegory for Ned’s life: every pool “reflects” something about his personal and professional disillusionments and dissatisfactions.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2015

To these disillusionments, Dr. Dewey has a hopeful but not a simple answer.

From Time Magazine Archive

It too now seems convincing to many archaeologists, but caution is warranted in view of all the previous disillusionments.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond