disarray

But under his facade of online success was a life in disarray: He’d lost his construction job.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

Crenshaw residents say construction in many areas lasted only for a few months before funding ran out, leaving the neighborhood in disarray.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

By March, the company was in such disarray that Windrose’s chief executive, Wen Han, was demanding to know where one of his $285,000 trucks had gone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Their journey from beginning to end has been a beautiful and often challenging exercise of building stability in chaos and out of disarray.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

Of course there were massive accounting problems in calculating the different state debts, not the least of the difficulties being sloppy records kept by several southern states, with Virginia topping the list for administrative disarray.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

Broadcasting from the station’s small Brooklyn storefront, director Ricot Dupuy has fielded calls suggesting dark theories about the assassins or sharing fears for a motherland becoming further disarrayed.

From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2021

She jabbed her chin at the disarrayed skeletons.

From Nature ● Jul. 31, 2013

Mr. Arpino, 60, was standing in the disarrayed showroom of Rootstein Display Mannequins in Chelsea, where he is the creative director.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2012

The main job of finding scientific answers was turned over to Physicist Teller, a disarrayed genius, who came up in short order with some brilliant solutions to the bomb problems.*

From Time Magazine Archive

It was half-empty and the clothes were disarrayed and tumbled.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright