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
  • The last two seasons have proven that the team starts off slow, which ends up messing their chances of making the playoffs.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The Marlins may also potentially mess things for the Phillies quest at avoiding the NL’s third-best record or Detroit’s bid at staying as the team with the top record in the AL.
    Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Those aren’t just random words jumbled together to test your reading comprehension—they’re the outcome of recent brand collaborations with Liquid Death.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The Cavaliers and Knicks stand apart as East co-favorites but after that it’s jumbled, largely because Achilles injuries recently erased three big stars from next season in the Pacers’ Tyrese Haliburton, Celtics’ Jayson Tatum and Bucks’ Damian Lillard, whom Milwaukee surprisingly waived this week.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 July 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
  • The unease is muddled, and the characters seem less vulnerable as a result.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
  • That’s muddling the outlook for rate cuts.
    Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But his turn in Slow Horses — as the brilliant, disheveled MI5 misfit Jackson Lamb — may be his most complete yet.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
  • They were all dishevelled from the wind, sprayed with seawater.
    Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Disorder of the body disordered the mind.
    Leila Chatti September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Full House alum, 49, opened up about her ongoing struggle with her body image and disordered eating to her guest, author Lisa Whittle, on the July 22 episode of The Candace Cameron Bure Podcast.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 24 July 2025
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“Draggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/draggle. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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