disjointed
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The accord aims to prevent a repeat of the disjointed international response that surrounded the coronavirus crisis, by improving global coordination, surveillance and access to vaccines.
From Barron's • May 1, 2026
Former England winger Chris Ashton told Rugby Special he felt England looked "disjointed" and there had been a "snowball effect" as errors mounted up.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
To evoke the fractured psyche of the characters, Morrison’s narratives are highly disjointed, switching among different points of view and time periods with only the slimmest semantic clues offered for orientation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
But our disjointed, patchwork healthcare-payment system is impossible to understand and out of control.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026
Harley’s words were becoming disjointed and he was accenting the words at the beginning and swallowing the ending sounds until it didn’t sound like English any more.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
Vocabulary lists containing disjointed
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