hurly-burly
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Perhaps this can be done in the midst of the hurly-burly of the professional world, but it’s not easy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Yet by 2021’s “Solar Power,” Lorde was singing about abandoning the hurly-burly of pop stardom in the always-on social-media era.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
The petite 20-year-old has carved out a small patch of influence in the male-dominated hurly-burly of Kenyan politics, in the informal settlement of Kibra in the capital, Nairobi, where she lives.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2022
Every day, for weeks, they communicated — about life, family, the hurly-burly of the everyday, on one occasion even talking by video.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2022
Declarations of principled withdrawal from the hurly-burly of politics to the natural rhythms of one’s fields or farms had become rhetorical rituals.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
King looks towards the Prince of Baireuth again, agreed on before those hurly-burlies now past; Queen looks far otherwards.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 by Thomas Carlyle
I hope the soldiers of Capua shall follow our faction, for Sylla, hearing of these hurly-burlies, is hasting homeward, very fortunate in his wars against Mithridates.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
How many several hurly-burlies of fools! for I myself sometimes sit among those poetical gods.
From The Praise of Folly by John Wilson
