draggle

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Verb
  • Their habitats were ransacked, their migration routes disarranged, truncated, cut off.
    Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
Verb
  • Somebody does something terrible and messes it up.
    Giana Levy, Variety, 31 Oct. 2025
  • If your smartwatch tracking every heartbeat and sleep cycle hasn’t already given you health anxiety, Kohler wants to mess you up in a new way.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Researchers at Google have spent years developing one such task: measuring how quantum information gets jumbled up over time.
    Dan Garisto, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Going frame by frame often highlights telltale AI hiccups such as a melting logo, a vanishing hand, jumbled text on signs or text that flickers and changes.
    Jennifer Jolly, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • As a result of financial and personal problems, Bíró's invention ended up muddled in a number of international patents and licensing agreements in different companies and individuals in various countries.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Together the flavor is muddled, slightly discordant, but alone the Irish whiskey gets to sing, its apples and pears and slight malt and gentle touch a perfect foil to the zesty front palate of the lemon and the deep finish of the almonds.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In preparing for the audition, Spacek claims to have deliberately arrived to read for the role all disheveled.
    Steven Thrash, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Police shared a mug shot of Catledge alongside the post, in which he could be seen in a gray shirt and appeared to be disheveled.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Cool aunts can have internalized misogyny and disordered eating patterns.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Children have a penchant for unconventional thinking that, at first glance, can look disordered.
    Celeste Kidd, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Draggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draggle. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.

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