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pandemonium

[pan-duh-moh-nee-uhm] / ˌpæn dəˈmoʊ ni əm /


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Maintaining the rage-filled pandemonium was most essential in supporting the stakes of the core story — a terrified, fish-out-of-water father who loses his son and desperately needs to find him.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

It’s only gotten nuttier in the past few years, as courts continue to intervene and allow athletes to move and earn, triggering unprecedented pandemonium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The secretary has worked to make herself the face of these invasions, which have invariably led to pandemonium.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

Amine Adli prodded home to make it 3-2 with nearly the last touch of the game after a scramble in the box following a long throw, sparking scenes of pandemonium.

From Barron's ● Jan. 24, 2026

There’s a single piercing shriek—I have no idea from where—then pandemonium.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

Again, where it was entered by minor cañons, it became a breach through crowded pandemoniums of ruined architectures and forsaken, frowning imageries.

From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest

He must have fought for life in the depths and pandemoniums, to achieve that excellence of equipment which makes men turn to him for his word and his strength.

From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Will Levington Comfort

My friends called these pandemoniums the hells of Montezuma.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

The manufacturing towns of England are mostly pandemoniums of smoke or blast-furnace fumes.

From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake

They were all completely open at the front, with their remarkable contents, pandemoniums of merchandise, exposed upon a precarious sidewalk of uneven parallel boards elevated two or three feet above the road.

From Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer




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