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pandemonium

[pan-duh-moh-nee-uhm] / ˌpæn dəˈmoʊ ni əm /


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It’s only gotten nuttier in the past few years, as courts continue to intervene and allow athletes to move and earn, triggering unprecedented pandemonium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

A bartender going by Andrew, who moved to New York from Ireland four years ago, said the vibe at the nearby pub where he works has been "absolutely mental" and "pandemonium."

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

“There is a certain level of pandemonium, as they say in wrestling, that’s needed to get people excited,” Iglesias said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026

The secretary has worked to make herself the face of these invasions, which have invariably led to pandemonium.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

No amount of natural wonders, of rigid cliffs and belching waters, of smoking springs could even engage my attention while that pandemonium went on.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

The manufacturing towns of England are mostly pandemoniums of smoke or blast-furnace fumes.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake

They were all completely open at the front, with their remarkable contents, pandemoniums of merchandise, exposed upon a precarious sidewalk of uneven parallel boards elevated two or three feet above the road.

From Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer

My friends called these pandemoniums the hells of Montezuma.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

Again, where it was entered by minor cañons, it became a breach through crowded pandemoniums of ruined architectures and forsaken, frowning imageries.

From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest

Forty or fifty years before, the guard-ships were generally little better than floating pandemoniums.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper




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