anarchy
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Baqaei condemned the threat towards Oman, calling it "a worrying sign of the normalisation of anarchy and intimidation in international relations".
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
She also defended the actions of the security agencies, saying they had prevented the state from sliding into anarchy.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026
Lincoln’s opposition to anarchy of any kind was absolute and clarion: “There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
It marks the death knell of the post–World War II settlement that, however imperfect, wrestled the anarchy of war into a framework designed to condition armed aggression on legal justification.
From Slate • Jan. 5, 2026
We’re lucky that English, with its stretchy grammar and its giant grab bag of a vocabulary, gives us so much room for verbal play, if not anarchy.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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