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
It was pell-mell outside the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on West 45th Street.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2023
There, things shift into hyper drive: pell-mell running, whooshing through twisty pneumatic tubes, leaping onto floating brick roads — Mario is barely given time to catch his breath.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2023
The inspiration goes back to visits in the 1980s to a storage facility for the British Museum where ethnographic objects were carefully labeled yet shelved pell-mell.
From New York Times • May 18, 2022
But she has gone; and they fly pell-mell up the hedgerow, frisking, chattering and perching where they will.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Vocabulary lists containing pell-mell
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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