disarray

After bowling seven overs with his leg-spin, he arrived to bat when his team were in disarray at 103-6, then left as a hero.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

The court has also been thrown into disarray as investigations have scrutinized links between several justices, their relatives or associates, and jailed, fraud-accused banker Daniel Vorcaro.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Government forces have since overcome their initial disarray and stopped further Houthi advances.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

But under his facade of online success was a life in disarray: He’d lost his construction job.

From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026

But we were young—all of us were now thirteen, except for Kanei, who was three years older—and our emotions were in disarray.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

Broadcasting from the station’s small Brooklyn storefront, director Ricot Dupuy has fielded calls suggesting dark theories about the assassins or sharing fears for a motherland becoming further disarrayed.

From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2021

She jabbed her chin at the disarrayed skeletons.

From Nature ● Jul. 31, 2013

Mr. Arpino, 60, was standing in the disarrayed showroom of Rootstein Display Mannequins in Chelsea, where he is the creative director.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2012

The main job of finding scientific answers was turned over to Physicist Teller, a disarrayed genius, who came up in short order with some brilliant solutions to the bomb problems.*

From Time Magazine Archive

It was half-empty and the clothes were disarrayed and tumbled.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright