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mayhem

noun as in chaos, confusion

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The lesson from both Colombia and Mexico is that a government that fails to defend life and property from marauders invites more mayhem and misery.

To survive, the Predator brand needed to widen its scope beyond the gory mayhem in some past movies, Trachtenberg said.

The allegation is that these praised what was happening and incited her legion of social media followers, some 100,000 at the time, to press on with the mayhem.

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The finish of Sunday’s Chicago Bears-Cincinnati Bengals game was total mayhem.

Both clubs have set an impressively high bar for mayhem this season.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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