mayhem
Example Sentences
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Perhaps he causes such extensive mayhem because he is the unintended side effect of a cataclysmic experiment.
From Salon
“They have come up with an ingenious way to create mayhem.”
It’s been pure mayhem in the financial markets.
The result has been pure mayhem in the financial markets.
From MarketWatch
During dozens of demonstrations, SRG officers were documented by New York Civil Liberties Union protest monitors escalating tensions and turning peaceful gatherings into scenes of mayhem.
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