as in havoc
a state in which everything is out of order
the boy's room is in such chaos that it looks as though a tornado had struck
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Recent Examples of chaos
The most effective way to shift from pessimism to optimism is to stop consuming chaos passively and start creating measurable progress daily.
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Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
The series is said to be casting for a new series regular amid Hawkins' exit, a Black cop who is an agent of chaos.
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Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 July 2026
While the number of relievers with at least 20 saves has surpassed last year’s and tied 2024’s, the number with at least 10 is below past levels, creating chaos for fantasy managers.
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Greg Jewett,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
The first footage from director Fred Cavayé’s new adaptation swaps soaring show tunes for prison cells, sword fights and revolutionary chaos.
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Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
2 July 2026
See All Example Sentences for chaos
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
The series is said to be casting for a new series regular amid Hawkins' exit, a Black cop who is an agent of chaos.
—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
2 July 2026
While the number of relievers with at least 20 saves has surpassed last year’s and tied 2024’s, the number with at least 10 is below past levels, creating chaos for fantasy managers.
—
Greg Jewett,
New York Times,
2 July 2026
The first footage from director Fred Cavayé’s new adaptation swaps soaring show tunes for prison cells, sword fights and revolutionary chaos.
—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
2 July 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaos
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The beloved southern elephant seal, Neil the Seal, is back in Tasmania, causing havoc yet again and garnering fans through his antics.
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Those same issues have ships and planes on high alert in the Middle East, and the ongoing conflict across the region is causing havoc for civilian applications like ride-hailing and food delivery.
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The reason can be explained by a Japanese proverb about the importance of leaving no mess.
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Clean high-traffic areas or rooms where pets and kids tend to cause messes more frequently.
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Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.
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Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.
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Mercury stations retrograde in Cancer in your 11th House of Friends and Community, bringing old invitations, group-chat confusion, or unclear expectations back into focus.
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In it, the author described a culture of confusion, stress, and incompetence, as contractors competed for work to be completed under near-impossible deadlines.
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Flying straight from the merry Riverlands into the somber halls of Dragonstone is one hell of a comedown, but Daemon never struggles to access his dark side.
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Avery met his wife Sally Michael–a hell of an artist in her own right–in Cape Ann and the couple honeymooned there in 1926 before moving to New York and meeting Gottlieb and Rothko.
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Her 12-year-old son, Whitman, has autism and a neurological disorder called apraxia, in which the brain struggles to tell muscles how to move to form words or perform other motor skills.
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The platform also provides a framework for treating brain disorders using real-time feedback from the nervous system itself, Wang adds.
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“Chaos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaos. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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