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 season ended in chaos, and for the first time in the entire Housewives franchise’s history, there was no Season 13 reunion.
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Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2025
Elsewhere, chaos remained: The Chicago Stars and Washington Spirit played a head-scratcher, with the latter coming out on top.
—Emily Olsen, New York Times, 13 May 2025
Americans are buckling under chaos Republicans helped create.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
Despite the economic chaos wreaked by the Trump administration’s unilateral imposition of tariffs on trading partners, first unleashed on April 2, the European Union has sizable leverage on trade.
—Arancha González Laya, Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2025
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Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2025
Elsewhere, chaos remained: The Chicago Stars and Washington Spirit played a head-scratcher, with the latter coming out on top.
—Emily Olsen, New York Times, 13 May 2025
Americans are buckling under chaos Republicans helped create.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
Despite the economic chaos wreaked by the Trump administration’s unilateral imposition of tariffs on trading partners, first unleashed on April 2, the European Union has sizable leverage on trade.
—Arancha González Laya, Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chaos
Noun
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Minor presents a similar challenge with her speed and ability to create havoc.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2025
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At 19, Harper’s poise and control are impressive, and even as a below-average outside shooter, his ability to create havoc in the paint and leverage his downhill gravity should translate to the pros immediately.—
The Athletic NBA Staff,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
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Another recent video on her page revealed this wasn't the last time her cat used a ball of yarn to cause a mess.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 May 2025
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Other traders were telling their stories better than us—our visual identity was a bit of a mess at the time—and lastly, people love great sandwiches!—
Lela London,
Forbes.com,
8 May 2025
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Instead, voters themselves are jumbles of competing and sometimes contradictory interests.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
14 Feb. 2025
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Baker also leads the orchestra, which sounds grand — although the sound in the arts center’s Pugh Theater often left musicians, lead singers and chorus all at the same level, with actors speaking over all of it at the same time to create a sonic jumble.—
Matthew J. Palm,
Orlando Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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This program was designed to provide shorter, clearer letters to reduce taxpayer confusion.—
Cindy McGhee,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogance, and from every evil way.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
15 May 2025
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The first is Lorraine Bracco’s Roberta, his mother’s best friend, a passionate Sicilian now raising hell in a nursing home.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
8 May 2025
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If this is the slow kind of hell, I’m used to it— My hands are folded the wrong way, the cat sits on the bed Like a limpet, the sun drops out of the sky, inexorable As a chandelier earring.—
Jane Yeh,
The New York Review of Books,
8 May 2025
Noun
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All of us have a depressive disorder and that’s when things go bad.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
13 May 2025
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WalletHub set out to find where Americans suffer the most from substance use disorders.—
Ben Kesslen,
Quartz,
13 May 2025
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“Chaos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaos. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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