unruly
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We scroll through videos starring unruly passengers or mangled bags, and read about the last resting place for lost luggage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
As a general rule, the individual components of quantum machines become increasingly unruly as they grow larger, causing error rates to spike.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
His unruly brown hair is beginning to gray and the stocky build he had as a player has filled out a bit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
U.S. airlines briefly stopped alcohol sales during the pandemic as air-rage incidents surged, and reports of unruly passenger behavior remain above prepandemic levels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
“Bruh, it means that I’ll be considered unruly, no matter what I do!”
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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If you like hockey but wish it was slower, unrulier and hot doggier, boy do I have a solution for you.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
“It’s become clear over the past two summers that these crowds will only grow larger and unrulier unless something changes.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
It rearranged the energy in the room, made it unrulier.
From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
This year, Miley Cyrus will host NBC’s New Year’s coverage with the “Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson, bringing a younger, unrulier energy to a gig that has been held by Carson Daly since 2004.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
But avoiding the unrulier parts of town has proved impossible, says Kirsten Knight, who has been in charge of housing the thousands of G20 delegates coming to Hamburg this week.
From Time ● Jul. 6, 2017
The good news is Freiman has written one of the funniest and unruliest novels in ages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
But this is that rare movie that transcends its role as pure entertainment to become something genuinely cathartic, even therapeutic, giving children a symbolic language with which to manage their unruliest emotions.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2015
Now, with the once-predictable monsoon becoming a wild card, one of the unruliest rivers in the world is growing increasingly tempestuous.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2013
With due allowance for rhetoric, the autocratic ruler of one of the world's unruliest unions was not exaggerating.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She sits in her breeches—the unruliest baggage in Gloucestershire," cried Eldershawe, "and complains that fine ladies are not decent.
From His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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