hectic
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It was hectic, but the onetime Miss Walterboro had a smile and a dollop of charm for everyone she encountered.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
It switches between a ghostly, vaporous beat and a hectic middle passage filled with sampled and pitched-up voices and clattering percussion.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
The Asoke-Din Daeng railway crossing is notoriously hectic, and leads to one of the busiest intersections in Bangkok.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
"It was pretty hectic... it's nasty, but I was able to get in," he told AFP.
From Barron's • May 16, 2026
The soca music played on as she worked on another section of her hair, hectic steel pan and percussion thumping through the air, her spine prickling.
From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi
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