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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

England have previously thrived in anarchy - their only win in Australia came in two days of pandemonium in Melbourne.

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

The man who created “The Rite of Spring”—a ballet whose pounding dissonances and unconventional rhythms caused pandemonium at its 1913 Paris premiere—now insisted that the bolder the creative ambition, the tighter the frame must be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

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

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

Far below them, in the City of New York, something like pandemonium was breaking out.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl

Forty or fifty years before, the guard-ships were generally little better than floating pandemoniums.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Frederick Whymper

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

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

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

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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