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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Just mess with you a little bit.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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In her fifty-seven years of wandering, nobody had messed with her.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Loudermilk appears to have jumbled the timeline of the National Guard's response, which is laid out in reports from both the Capitol Police and Department of Defense Office of Inspector General.—
Tom Dreisbach,
NPR,
16 Jan. 2026
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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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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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Peterson's lawyers argued his role as an armed school resource officer did not amount to a caregiving post needed to prove child neglect in Florida, and that the response to the shooting was muddled by poor communication.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
21 Jan. 2026
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At the moment, however, the apex of the 2026 draft order is muddled.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
12 Jan. 2026
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Sturch said Columbo is not as disheveled in the theater version as Falk later presented him.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Jan. 2026
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These evocative, volcanic islands, cast adrift off the northeast coast of Sicily, remain salted, fresh, and gloriously disheveled.—
Rosalyn Wikeley,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Jan. 2026
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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 2 Feb. 2026.
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