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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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“Chaos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chaos. Accessed 17 Aug. 2022.
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