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pandemonium

[pan-duh-moh-nee-uhm] / ˌpæn dəˈmoʊ ni əm /


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It’s only gotten nuttier in the past few years, as courts continue to intervene and allow athletes to move and earn, triggering unprecedented pandemonium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

England have previously thrived in anarchy - their only win in Australia came in two days of pandemonium in Melbourne.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

None of these treatments make clear sense — mainly because they aren’t real — but that’s exactly Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso’s point: Fame is all make-believe pandemonium and there is no real recovery from it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

The secretary has worked to make herself the face of these invasions, which have invariably led to pandemonium.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

And then amidst the pandemonium I heard him.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys

He must have fought for life in the depths and pandemoniums, to achieve that excellence of equipment which makes men turn to him for his word and his strength.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort

Forty or fifty years before, the guard-ships were generally little better than floating pandemoniums.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper

The manufacturing towns of England are mostly pandemoniums of smoke or blast-furnace fumes.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake

My friends called these pandemoniums the hells of Montezuma.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

They were all completely open at the front, with their remarkable contents, pandemoniums of merchandise, exposed upon a precarious sidewalk of uneven parallel boards elevated two or three feet above the road.

From Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer


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