as in to disarrange
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Their habitats were ransacked, their migration routes disarranged, truncated, cut off.—
Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
21 Oct. 2022
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Welcome to Hells Kitchen son @oscarjramsay don't mess it up please !—
Emily Weaver,
PEOPLE,
29 Dec. 2025
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The safest bet is that the Dolphins will find a way to mess it up.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
21 Dec. 2025
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That's because the topping of this cake is all jumbled up, sorta resembling the mess left behind when a tornado rolls through an open plain in Texas.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
22 Dec. 2025
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Likewise, the Padres view King’s return as an important piece of a rotation puzzle that had been jumbled by the loss of Yu Darvish to elbow surgery and the prospect of losing both King and Cease to free agency.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Dec. 2025
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The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Dec. 2024
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Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.—
Yasmine Salam,
NBC News,
2 Dec. 2023
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However impressively efficient the American strike may have been, the president’s motives have been muddled.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Time,
5 Jan. 2026
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The situation might be a bit more muddled by the US wanting to resume nuclear testing.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Dec. 2025
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Jet fuel flowed into the cabin, filling the space as Carleton, frazzled and disheveled, crawled toward the exit, tossing luggage that had fallen out of the upside-down overhead compartments out of the way to clear a path for his fellow passengers.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
20 Dec. 2025
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College football is in chaos, its clothes disheveled, shirttail out, shoes expensive, Italian-made, but scuffed.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Dec. 2025
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Extreme deficits may lead to obsessive food tracking, anxiety around eating, or disordered eating patterns.—
Heather Jones,
Verywell Health,
6 Jan. 2026
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These measurements revealed that the second conductivity drop occurred when the atomic structure of the warm dense aluminum suddenly lost its orderly arrangement and became disordered.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Dec. 2025
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“Draggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draggle. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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