disarray
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But under his facade of online success was a life in disarray: He’d lost his construction job.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Crenshaw residents say construction in many areas lasted only for a few months before funding ran out, leaving the neighborhood in disarray.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Windrose Technology, an electric big rig startup, faces disarray, unpaid debts and a federal lawsuit, with a $285,000 truck missing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Their journey from beginning to end has been a beautiful and often challenging exercise of building stability in chaos and out of disarray.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
The wrapping paper had been torn open and carelessly retied, but even through the disarray I could spot Nollie’s loving touch.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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
At the end of an hour and a half Governor La Follette's hair was in his eyes, his coat disarrayed, but his Madison audience was still very much with him.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was half-empty and the clothes were disarrayed and tumbled.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing disarray
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