lawlessness

Example Sentences

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Hilton, a former Fox News host, wrote in an email that “every sane person is horrified by the scenes of chaos and lawlessness in Minneapolis, and most of all that people are getting killed.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026

And yet, in a version of Britain the rest of Europe has abandoned to death and lawlessness, Kelson survives because of his dedication to artistic and scientific curiosity.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

It isn’t able to hold territory, but it is contributing to a sense of lawlessness that’s adding to the stress on the new state.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

While meant to be a warning that brutality, cruelty, and lawlessness extended toward some would not end with those first targeted, there have always been a few problems with the Niemöller poem.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2025

Doppler’s example returned to Mendel: there was music behind noise, laws behind seeming lawlessness, and only a profoundly artificial experiment—creating hybrids out of purebred strains carrying simple traits—could reveal these underlying patterns.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee