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was dizzying
  • past progressive of dizzy.

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He told The Sunday Times that viral fame was "dizzying".

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

By the time we got to Jackson Heights, the energy was dizzying.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2025

For Orozco, who was 27 when the show ended after 335 episodes, the success was dizzying.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2024

“The pace of change in Seattle was dizzying and I’d expect the same to happen in Bellevue.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2022

The sphinxes’ strength, Christopher saw, was dizzying: they leaped like coiled springs upward over the rock, covering twenty feet at a bound.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell