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unruly

[uhn-roo-lee] / ʌnˈru li /


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But there’s affection in Jean’s moralizing, as he brings out his own comb to run it through Berenger’s unruly hair—where it gets stuck.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

One passenger on the Porter Airlines plane, Aryeh Kozuch, told CBC News the child had not been unruly but had seemed scared.

From BBC Aug. 10, 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

Her light hair was pulled back into a knot, but it was unruly, and as the girls watched, the woman smoothed and retied it.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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

It rearranged the energy in the room, made it unrulier.

From New York Times Apr. 6, 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

With due allowance for rhetoric, the autocratic ruler of one of the world's unruliest unions was not exaggerating.

From Time Magazine Archive

The unruliest of men bend before the leader that has the sense to see and the will to do.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike




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