bedlam
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From 1-0 down to 2-1 up, from deep concern to utter bedlam in 18 breathless minutes.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
At some point, bedlam just becomes background noise that never stops.
From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026
In the midst of Belém’s COP30 bedlam, environmentalists, economists, lobbyists and diplomats busily haggle at the global climate conference about what we can and cannot get away with in negotiations over Mother Nature.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025
For a film that’s ostensibly about the picture-perfect joys of a family Christmas, this looks more like holiday bedlam than bliss.
From Salon • Oct. 15, 2025
His ears shrank from the bedlam of singing, cackling, and giggling that was going on behind the closed black patent leather shutters.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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