mayhem

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Recent Examples of mayhem That calm amid the mayhem is something he’s cultivated all the more through meditation (starting at Texas Tech with Paddy Steinfort, then a mental performance consultant for the school). Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025 The girl’s caretakers were each convicted of child endangerment, and her mom was also convicted of mayhem, officials said. Brooke Baitinger, Sacramento Bee, 15 Jan. 2025 On Potomac, however, all of the potential to meaningfully explore queerness on a Black franchise — after years of the gay men of RHOA being trotted out and swapped like Pokémon cards — is effectively overridden by Mia’s persistent state of mayhem. Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025 The Exponential Festival makes aesthetic mayhem at the Brick Theatre and its satellites. The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for mayhem 
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Noun
  • The number of Indianapolis children lost to gun violence dropped dramatically last year.
    Arika Herron, Axios, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Statistics show that every hour of every day, someone’s spinal cord is injured, with the damage usually occurring due to vehicle crashes, falls, acts of violence, and sports and recreational activities, according to The Miami Project.
    Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There was plenty of testimony of past episodes of widespread regime brutality, such as the crushing of a Shiite uprising in 1991.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The officer remained anonymous, identifying himself only as Caesar, but experts quickly verified his photographs—documentary proof of systematic brutality.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Regardless of the injury, Wilson was instrumental in helping the Steelers get to the playoffs.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Details regarding the extent of the injuries have not yet been disclosed.
    Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Washington — Justice Department lawyers and defense attorneys for the three men accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks squared off before a federal appeals court Tuesday in a court fight over whether plea agreements reached with the defendants last summer can go forward.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2025
  • In exchange, Israel released 121 Palestinian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment for deadly terror attacks and an additional 79 prisoners serving lengthy sentences.
    Efrat Lachter, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2025

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“Mayhem.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mayhem. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.

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