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Recent Examples of disarray
Noun
Some city leaders and advocates working with the homeless have also argued that the undertaking tossed the already precarious lives of residents into further disarray and interrupted ongoing efforts to help people secure permanent housing. Rick Rojas, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025 China was a communist country on the run and in disarray. USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
Verb
The hands-off approach in Washington is adding to disarray around the death penalty nationwide as pressure increases in some conservative states to find ways to continue executions amid shortages of the lethal-injection drugs. Michael Tarm, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2021 Eslam Negm is no stranger to disarray on the Suez Canal. NBC News, 2 Apr. 2021 See all Example Sentences for disarray 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disarray
Noun
  • Supporters of the crackdown have also taken to social media to try to undermine the raid warnings, contributing false sightings to the people trying to aggregate data and generally causing havoc to try to disrupt the efforts.
    Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Even rudimentary AIs could potentially cause havoc.
    Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Lower serotonin levels can disrupt this process, leading to constipation.87 Ongoing stress can also affect the gut barrier and make your intestines more sensitive to bacteria.
    Brittany Dube, Health, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The ring around the camera module is a bit thick though and disrupted charging on my Qi charger on occasion, but not consistently.
    Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • There’s no obvious way out of the mess, but avenues are being explored and the famously-scrappy UK production sector will back itself to find the route through.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 31 Jan. 2025
  • In one guardroom, among the mess on the floor, is an orange locker door ripped from its hinges and taped with a poster of Mr. Assad.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Smaller breeds take the field in the first quarter, and the lineup shuffles to play the larger breeds in the fourth quarter.
    Emma Bowman, NPR, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Some of that work has been controversial, like Gov. Jeff Landry's sudden moves to shuffle homeless people out from prime downtown locations.
    Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Lawler’s Suzy is a poignant mass of fierce intellect and crushing vulnerability, of resolute determination and emotional chaos.
    Chad Jones, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Despite the chaos of the Rumble, Cena took time out of his schedule to have a one-on-one conversation with Hendry.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Activists on college campuses have confused the ability to occupy and disrupt physical space for the right to dissent verbally.
    Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The employee recounted how the customer, seemingly annoyed, gestured under his chin in a manner that initially confused her.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Minimize noise and clutter Dr. Small says environmental triggers like loud sounds and jumbles of papers and clothing can increase sundowning symptoms.
    Cathy Habas, SELF, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Owners’ names now read like jumbles of computer code, retirement homes or rock bands: Silver Sage, Dream Homes, Blue Apple, P Fin VII, Wref II, 3xs2, Vivid, Straight Red Lines, TKJK, Jags Proper.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 24 June 2024
Verb
  • My earliest memories are these moments of intense observation, sitting in silence to not disturb their process.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
  • In a statement to TheWrap, Sue Obeidi, the director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council's Hollywood bureau, said she was disturbed by the posts.
    Dhanika Pineda, NPR, 31 Jan. 2025

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“Disarray.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disarray. Accessed 14 Feb. 2025.

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