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mayhem

noun as in chaos, confusion

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But to qualify for the genre itself—and satisfy the base demands of the base—a movie is required to both accelerate toward lunacy and entertain a certain amount of mayhem.

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"They want mayhem on the ground. They want to create the war zone so that they can send in even more troops," he told CNN's Jake Tapper.

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On Wednesday morning, the president weighed in again, writing on Truth Social, “Conditions continue to deteriorate into lawless mayhem.”

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After two-and-a-half hours, the show ends with Gaga announcing she has defeated the "mistress of mayhem".

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Finding a way to cause such mayhem on a consistent basis is the challenge for Newcastle.

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

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