turmoil
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With the dressing room in turmoil and the club's reputation on the line, Real Madrid need a strong leader to steer the team back on course next season.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
Like Stanley Kubrick in “Eyes Wide Shut,” Almodóvar uses the season’s festive lights to contrast the turmoil the film’s characters feel inside.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
Xi also wants the fighting to stop, as Middle East turmoil restricts China’s oil supply and shrinks countries’ ability to buy Chinese goods.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026
But that has been throttled since the war as Iran largely closed the strait, throwing global markets into turmoil and driving up oil prices.
From Barron's • May 10, 2026
The Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, America’s emergence as a world power, the Second World War, and continuing turmoil in the Middle East all have their roots in the First World War.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Vocabulary lists containing turmoil
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Franklin Roosevelt, "Four Freedoms" (1941)
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