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This city doesn’t panic, it simply spreads out in an orderly fashion.

Last night’s debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues.

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His bellicose performance in the first presidential debate probably didn’t comfort businesspeople hoping for more orderly policymaking.

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Thus, a shelf of alphabetized books is more orderly and has less entropy.

Another way of stating this is to say that the xy-plane “parameterizes,” or collects in an orderly way, all pairs of points on the number line.

The protestors cooperated for the most part, making the march orderly and peaceful.

People came up from Mexico, mostly young men in their 20s, in a more or less orderly fashion.

Yes, I think an orderly and measured immigration policy is appropriate.

By global standards, it's a fairly calm, quiet, orderly place of medium size that functions pretty well most days.

The delays would cause chaos and snarl traffic at checkpoints, frustrate orderly schedules, and make tempers short.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

Not only are they required to do things in a proper orderly manner, but people have to treat them with due deference.

We have to remember that his daily life, where the home is orderly, helps to impress on him regularity of form.

Dobson, mouth agape, struck a little bell on the desk and the orderly stepped in from the outer room.

After an uncertain period of waiting, the orderly called "Gordon MacRae," and the inquisition began.

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On this page you'll find 128 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to orderly, such as: businesslike, formal, neat, precise, regulated, and scientific.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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