disarray
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But under his facade of online success was a life in disarray: He’d lost his construction job.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
He said it was there that deputies noticed the man’s SUV was in disarray and displayed a fake license plate, prompting deputies to investigate further.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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
The foreign front is described as being in disarray, with different envoys tasked with a jumble of international conflicts and some, like Steve Witkoff, given far too many assignments at once.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
With his voice striking the perfect sober note, Holmes apologized for the disarray and explained that Julia’s sister had fallen gravely ill and Julia and her daughter had left at once for the train station.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
Short, powerfully built, with a freckled face and a mop of disarrayed red hair, Peter was a product of Budapest's war-battered slums.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was half-empty and the clothes were disarrayed and tumbled.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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