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scramble
noun as in mix-up, confusion
Example Sentences
Mr Griffiths said his firm had to scramble last week when a driver scraped the hearse on a narrow lane.
Former President Joe Biden’s administration scrambled to evacuate Afghans from the country after its withdrawal ended in a Taliban takeover—a process that resettlement advocates criticized as too slow in its early years.
Two hundred U.S. troops working with Israel’s military and other partners have scrambled over the past week to build out a new Civil-Military Coordination Center.
But that's exactly what American comedian and talk show host Jimmy Fallon was left scrambling for when he was unexpectedly invited to a black-tie dinner while on a trip to Aberdeenshire.
On Monday, a peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Nature showed how a team of Google researchers repeatedly scrambled information before reversing the process.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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