pell-mell
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“In its pell-mell rush to discharge patients, we are losing sight of them,” Short said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
The court as a whole and the two concurrences hurtle pell-mell toward making it virtually impossible for plaintiffs like Mexico to successfully plead their claims.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2025
Projects include programming robots to take care of some of the routine aspects of nursing and providing extra training to nurses before they are thrown into the pell-mell of the hospital floor or busy clinic.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2022
The inspiration goes back to visits in the 1980s to a storage facility for the British Museum where ethnographic objects were carefully labeled yet shelved pell-mell.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2022
He ran on, pell-mell, through the rain and down the winding path into the lower slopes of the graveyard, running until he reached the old chapel.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
Vocabulary lists containing pell-mell
"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 19–24
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