pell-mell
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The court as a whole and the two concurrences hurtle pell-mell toward making it virtually impossible for plaintiffs like Mexico to successfully plead their claims.
From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025
He’s also assembled a pell-mell array of older painting and sculpture from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2024
It was pell-mell outside the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on West 45th Street.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2023
Projects include programming robots to take care of some of the routine aspects of nursing and providing extra training to nurses before they are thrown into the pell-mell of the hospital floor or busy clinic.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2022
He ran on, pell-mell, through the rain and down the winding path into the lower slopes of the graveyard, running until he reached the old chapel.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
Vocabulary lists containing pell-mell
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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