unruly
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The park’s policies state that, because of “increasing incidents of unruly and inappropriate behavior,” guests younger than 16 are required to have someone 21 or older with them during afternoon hours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
We scroll through videos starring unruly passengers or mangled bags, and read about the last resting place for lost luggage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Police arrested several unruly fans near Madison Square Garden in New York Wednesday night, where basketball fans gathered for Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Spurs and the Knicks, an AFP photographer observed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
The launch of an exclusive pocket watch has sparked a frenzy that forced stores worldwide to close and in some cases saw police officers and security deal with huge unruly crowds.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
“Maybe it was Marcus,” Faris, a member of my battle platoon who towers over the rest of us, says, grinning, his blond hair popping up in an unruly cowlick.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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If you like hockey but wish it was slower, unrulier and hot doggier, boy do I have a solution for you.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024
“It’s become clear over the past two summers that these crowds will only grow larger and unrulier unless something changes.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
In a good year, though — and this is one — the event can feel like the unrulier, at times more adventurous younger sibling of the New York Film Festival.
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2022
This year, Miley Cyrus will host NBC’s New Year’s coverage with the “Saturday Night Live” star Pete Davidson, bringing a younger, unrulier energy to a gig that has been held by Carson Daly since 2004.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2021
But avoiding the unrulier parts of town has proved impossible, says Kirsten Knight, who has been in charge of housing the thousands of G20 delegates coming to Hamburg this week.
From Time ● Jul. 6, 2017
The good news is Freiman has written one of the funniest and unruliest novels in ages.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
But this is that rare movie that transcends its role as pure entertainment to become something genuinely cathartic, even therapeutic, giving children a symbolic language with which to manage their unruliest emotions.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2015
Now, with the once-predictable monsoon becoming a wild card, one of the unruliest rivers in the world is growing increasingly tempestuous.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2013
Last week, graying but as kinetic as ever at 47, Mayor Lindsay asked New Yorkers to give him four more years to try to bring the nation's unruliest city under control.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She sits in her breeches—the unruliest baggage in Gloucestershire," cried Eldershawe, "and complains that fine ladies are not decent.
From His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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