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disarray

[dis-uh-ray] / ˌdɪs əˈreɪ /


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Market choppiness and artificial-intelligence safety fears are spooking investors and throwing into disarray what was expected to be a string of blockbuster IPOs this fall, Corrie Driebusch reports for The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The court has also been thrown into disarray as investigations have scrutinized links between several justices, their relatives or associates, and jailed, fraud-accused banker Daniel Vorcaro.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The disarray and unsettledness that characterizes the end of this trial is unsatisfying but also in line with the whole of the Clancy saga.

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026

Henry Crocombe claimed his second hat-trick in eight days, and third five-wicket haul of the season, to leave Essex's batting in total disarray on an incredible evening of tumbling wickets at Chelmsford.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The “secesh” community—those Southern secessionist sympathizers living a secret life in the nation’s capital—is in disarray.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly

Broadcasting from the station’s small Brooklyn storefront, director Ricot Dupuy has fielded calls suggesting dark theories about the assassins or sharing fears for a motherland becoming further disarrayed.

From Reuters ● Jul. 9, 2021

She jabbed her chin at the disarrayed skeletons.

From Nature ● Jul. 31, 2013

Mr. Arpino, 60, was standing in the disarrayed showroom of Rootstein Display Mannequins in Chelsea, where he is the creative director.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2012

Throughout the hearings he ate little, often showed up in the Senate chamber disarrayed and unsteady of voice.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was half-empty and the clothes were disarrayed and tumbled.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright




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