higgledy-piggledy
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Ukrainians upload a higgledy-piggledy stream of information about Russians killed in the war on several channels on the Telegram messaging application, including the names of the deceased.
From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2022
Moreover, the liver does not just expand higgledy-piggledy in the animals.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 15, 2022
"Some of them are more than 100 years old and quite higgledy-piggledy … they might not have a centralised escalator. If you built them from scratch you wouldn't build them that way."
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2018
Stage blood and slime are squirted and splattered higgledy-piggledy.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2016
The sparrows lived higgledy-piggledy here in one great untidy tribe.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Vocabulary lists containing higgledy-piggledy
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
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