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  • The chaotic unplanned life of the patient at present with...   (source)
    chaotic = confused and disordered
  • They sped about the great room, climbing over furniture, unwrapping treats, and generally creating chaos until an exasperated Isabella herded them upstairs.   (source)
  • Chaotic confusion and blackness, after which they find themselves, back in the bedroom, clinging to each other desperately.   (source)
    chaotic = extremely disordered (confusion)
  • With the countless reporters yelling questions and the other kids looking on from their little huddled groups, it was such a chaotic and stressful scene.   (source)
    chaotic = confused and disordered
  • The old house almost shook with a chaotic energy, and after a few minutes Simeon was at peace again.†   (source)
  • It was parked in the center of the chaos.†   (source)
  • There was the chaos of goodbye.†   (source)
  • It had caused chaos with people bidding on parts and actually trying to hack off pieces themselves.†   (source)
  • People were desperately worried that the Taliban would take advantage of the chaos and return to the valley.†   (source)
  • Archaide was both a PvP zone and a chaos zone, which meant that both magic and technology functioned here.†   (source)
  • Peeves was bobbing overhead, now grinning wickedly, surveying the scene; Peeves always loved chaos.†   (source)
  • And in this chaos, Risa has a sudden realization.†   (source)
  • Dad had become interested in chaos theory and was reading Los Alamos Science and the Journal of Statistical Physics.†   (source)
  • The water by this time was a chaos of whitecaps that threatened to swamp and capsize his tiny craft.†   (source)
  • In the chaos, planes collided, fired on each other, and worse.†   (source)
  • They'll be thrown into chaos.†   (source)
  • So chaos is all just random and unpredictable?†   (source)
  • The way the bees poured out, rushing up all of a sudden in spirals of chaos and noise, caused me to jump.†   (source)
  • Everyone descended on the table in a chaotic flurry, knocking over glasses and sending forks onto the floor and picking up plates (which did not match, Phoebe pointed out to me) and saying, "That's my plate.†   (source)
  • The syringe, folded into the oily fabric, worked loose and fell into the drawer and he pawed through the chaos before his fingers touched the round plastic barrel.†   (source)
  • If we hadn't been rehydrated in time, maybe all of us would have been eaten by the Chaotic Era rats.†   (source)
  • People were now combing through this, searching for images of their loved ones, trying to find out what had happened in the chaos, and the authorities were using it to track down people who had committed crimes.†   (source)
  • Before his death, I had settled into the chaotic but happy routine of splitting time between Mom's and Mamaw's.†   (source)
  • He rushes outside with the Hungarians, to be greeted by panicked SS and a chaos of prisoners and captors on the move, seemingly oblivious to each other.†   (source)
  • Things must have been chaotic at the time," Lilian replied sadly.†   (source)
  • Everyone was frantically looking for someone; people were crying, praying, hugging each other, or just standing there stupidly, staring numbly as the whole chaotic scene unwound around them.†   (source)
  • Imagine the world in chaos.†   (source)
  • Immediately, there was chaos.†   (source)
  • The Dauntless on that screen are firing at one another, shoving one another, screaming—chaos.†   (source)
  • If I set a million meerkats fleeing in terror, the chaos would be indescribable.†   (source)
  • His life descended into a nightmare of drug dependency and chaos, complete with the growing risk of death by overdose.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I felt like King Canute, making vain pronouncements in the face of a tide of chaos and creeping devastation.†   (source)
  • When they were unbalanced, there was chaos.†   (source)
  • And the next afternoon I was busily expanding the chaos of my little universe when I heard a deep voice say, "That's quite an undertaking, young lady."†   (source)
  • Chaos ruled.†   (source)
  • The camp was a chaos of smoke and running figures.†   (source)
  • Luke peeked around the stairway door, surveying the chaos of dirty pans and crumb-covered plates left in the kitchen.†   (source)
  • Life is chaos, gentlemen.†   (source)
  • Furniture had indeed fallen; the place was a chaos of wrecked clocks and chairs, and in the midst of it the bulk of Tom Hustings lay, fallen on the smaller figure of Abanazer Bolger.†   (source)
  • Staying in sight of one another, they trudged through the chaos.†   (source)
  • When you add to these activities the constant comings and goings of the tenants who live in the upstairs apartments—they must all walk through Mr. Odom's entrance hall to reach the stairway—you have an idea of the chaotic atmosphere that prevails.†   (source)
  • On Scatter Springs Drive the trees had closed the road in so that the sky was little more than an indistinct, drab ribbon overhead, but down here the dramatic expanse of it was visible, chaotic and fierce.†   (source)
  • Her hometown, and the rest of California, the rest of America, seemed like some chaotic mess in the developing world.†   (source)
  • There was instant and total chaos in the back row, the one nearest to the football field, because the portables themselves were starting to break apart and move.†   (source)
  • And when X is between 3 and 3.57 the population goes in cycles like this.... But when X is greater than 3.57 the population becomes chaotic like in the first graph.†   (source)
  • I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise and chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.†   (source)
  • chaos and concern†   (source)
  • Chaos was a constellation of students, running out of the school and trampling the injured.†   (source)
  • Chaos disturbed her; mayhem was mayhem, even if people were having a good time; bad weather was bad weather, even if no one seemed to mind.†   (source)
  • In our family lore Lahore was magic and Lahore was chaos.†   (source)
  • It was a maddening, chaotic time for Maniac.†   (source)
  • The cue ball shot all around the table, creating general chaos.†   (source)
  • Due to all the chaos parading through my head and stomach, I fail to muster a reply.†   (source)
  • After dinner, when the house was at its most chaotic and Miss Peregrine at her most distracted, Emma pretended to head for the sitting room and I for the study.†   (source)
  • Outside, snow swirled through the castle gates, and the yard was all noise and chaos, but inside the thick stone walls it was still warm and quiet.†   (source)
  • During the time I was with him, Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic and entirely personal reservations, letting its rocklike facts sift through and be accepted only a little at a time, only as much as he could assimilate without a sense of chaos and loss.†   (source)
  • Before I open the door to the usual chaos, I pat the flag fluttering from the porch.†   (source)
  • The metal gong beat continuously now and the flute, shrill and powerful, floated on the chaos.†   (source)
  • Because I think to myself, even today, how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?†   (source)
  • When the man got the door open what we found was chaos.†   (source)
  • I can still hear the noise and chaos from the onlookers.†   (source)
  • Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and she did not have it in her to be cruel.†   (source)
  • The three boys, already numb to the chaos that surrounded them, knew that staying out of trouble was a lot harder than just talking about it.†   (source)
  • They couldn't run or Iko would be trampled in the chaos.†   (source)
  • Emerging through chaos unscathed.†   (source)
  • Grab Nugget in the organized chaos of the safe room, hide out until the all-clear sounds, and then on to the buses.†   (source)
  • All else is dreary chaos!†   (source)
  • The last time I was in this place, it was clear that the people who maintained the room weren't prepared for the chaos of all the Selected girls down here.†   (source)
  • They were sleeping through the chaos.†   (source)
  • As usual there was chaos in the main thoroughfare.†   (source)
  • Sometimes when a Christian Pole wanted to describe a chaotic event, he would say, "It was like a Jewish congregation."†   (source)
  • Walker frames are conjured into life, knitting wool is enchanted into chaos, and male nurses are made to dance tango.†   (source)
  • Chaotic room-service trays; too many cigarettes; lukewarm vodka from duty free.†   (source)
  • It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death.†   (source)
  • Cowell had been raised in poverty and chaos.†   (source)
  • Chaos all the time, fighting, and war.†   (source)
  • Whenever I was not promoting chaos with Paul and Dave, I spent hundreds of hours sitting in a corner of Michael's famed "Hall of Knowledge," reading books about movies, race cars and airplanes.†   (source)
  • I'd never played with more than a handful of musicians before, so the first few days in orchestra were chaotic.†   (source)
  • A chaos erupts.†   (source)
  • Chaos seems to rule Alagaesia.†   (source)
  • Order blends into chaos, love into hate, ugliness into beauty, law into anarchy, civility into savagery.†   (source)
  • When Alyss opened her eyes, the room was still in chaos, white pawns and rooks and the occasional knight falling at the hands of the enemy.†   (source)
  • It was chaos in color.†   (source)
  • They said the attack had been too sudden, too chaotic; that everyone had fled in different directions in total confusion.†   (source)
  • He rested his cheek against the rain-spattered canopy and looked down at the chaos.†   (source)
  • Complicating the sleep-deprived chaos that was our lives, our new baby had us terribly worried.†   (source)
  • It was Shandi's fire, and a small pot hung simmering, boiling potatoes, strangely familiar among the chaos.†   (source)
  • When the chaos of feelings receded, and I slowly became aware of myself again, Mameha was kneeling above me.†   (source)
  • The broadcasting schedule was in chaos.†   (source)
  • The shelling happened in a flash, but it seemed the chaos went on for hours.†   (source)
  • Chaos ensued.†   (source)
  • Despite the orchestrated chaos of our home, we always ate meals at a certain time, always did homework at a certain time, and always went to bed at a certain time.†   (source)
  • We got video of the whole chaotic scene, and Jai says it was a "magical moment" that will be one of her favorite memories of our family together.†   (source)
  • It's chaos and collapse everywhere I look, with dead rats splattered flat on asphalt and the air spiked with drafts of decaying food, urine, vomit and misery.†   (source)
  • If we're extremely fortunate, that war will only cause decades of chaos, and not tear the Radch apart completely.†   (source)
  • The bookshop was in chaos.†   (source)
  • It was chaos.†   (source)
  • For the police there were warnings of a different sort—letters from parents, visits from detectives hired by parents—but these were lost in the chaos.†   (source)
  • With the darkness conies chaos.†   (source)
  • Arriving inside the gates, we met chaos: forty to fifty American bodies laid out all over the runway with medical personnel trying to get them through triage—figuring out the nonsurvivable from the survivable, the critical from the less critical—and attending to them accordingly.†   (source)
  • It took less than a month for our household to fall into chaos.†   (source)
  • Please, God, no. But below the tumble of his chaotic thoughts, below the triphammer beat of his heart, he could hear the soft and futile sound of the doorknob being turned to and fro as something locked in tried helplessly to get out, something that wanted to meet him, something that would like to be introduced to his family as the storm shrieked around them and white daylight became black night.†   (source)
  • Outside the house much was random and chaotic, but inside, perhaps, a degree of order could be built.†   (source)
  • By all accounts, they had grown tired of the insurgents and the chaos they had brought, and wanted them gone.†   (source)
  • Evil monsters like these are often referred to as the "forces of chaos."†   (source)
  • According to Robert Stevenson, one of the scientists involved in the meeting, their goal was to keep the field from "degenerating into complete chaos."†   (source)
  • But who was to make this revelation when the sky and sea became indistinguishable and neither any longer was chaos?†   (source)
  • Despite the chaos, in a strange way those were happy days.†   (source)
  • In the mornings we'd swim the half mile to the little island in the hay, make love on secret hidden beaches; in the afternoons we'd sit at a bar drinking strong, bitter gin and tonics, watching swarms of beach footballers playing chaotic twenty-five-a-side games on the low-tide sands.†   (source)
  • One year he was an assistant with the Oakland Raiders, the next he was the head coach of something called the San Jose Apaches in a chaotic semi-pro league soon to implode.†   (source)
  • That would mean Sartre and Camus and all those characters were right—all is chaos, life has no meaning.†   (source)
  • It was around this time that the Cultural Revolution reached its most chaotic period, from about the middle of 1966.†   (source)
  • Kendo is to real samurai sword fighting what fencing is to real swashbuckling: an attempt to take a highly disorganized, chaotic, violent, and brutal conflict and turn it into a cute game.†   (source)
  • Even though she could no longer rely on her sister-in-law's impeccable skills for ordering the chaos of the big house on the corner, she still paid no attention to domestic matters.†   (source)
  • By this time there was chaos on the mountain.†   (source)
  • They and their families had fled violence and chaos and found themselves in a society with a completely different set of values and expectations.†   (source)
  • Along with that, chaos and uncertainty reign among the residents, loyalties often divide, and personnel changes occur.†   (source)
  • George and Harold were grinning from ear to ear, remembering their silly invention and the chaos that followed.†   (source)
  • On the bus ride back from the trip on Monday, the driver had to drop me off about five miles away from the school and I had to have Jorge pick me up because the media scene at school was just chaos.†   (source)
  • Tonight, at exactly 10:00 P.M., Booth and his henchmen would throw into chaos the Union government by killing its top leaders.†   (source)
  • Needless disasters, all of them, because the general impression was that the parrot had taken advantage of the chaos to escape through neighboring patios.†   (source)
  • Their childhood was chaotic, with a mother who was forever leaving them and a father who was virtually an alcoholic.†   (source)
  • Chaos theory says that even a small change in initial conditions can lead to wildly unpredictable results.†   (source)
  • As I sort the numbers on the screen, making order out of chaos and detecting patterns, my heartbeat evens out.†   (source)
  • No hint of this must ever reach another Great House, else the Landsraad might unite against the Imperial House and there'd be chaos.†   (source)
  • Like a single bird across a storm-cloud sky, a tiny peace winged its way through the chaos inside his body.†   (source)
  • You'd think with all these kids it would be chaotic, but Miss Larsen rarely raises her voice.†   (source)
  • That one I called Chaos.†   (source)
  • Like her body, the rooms were spilling over, wild, chaotic, out of control.†   (source)
  • It's chaos out here right now, Ruby.†   (source)
  • Others, evidently, showed less concern for Germany or her inhabitants, but were of the opinion that the economic chaos of that country, if not halted, might spread with alarming rapidity to the world at large.†   (source)
  • We entered a period of chaos and noise.†   (source)
  • It often teaches basic job skills such as getting to work on time — to people who can barely read, whose lives have been chaotic or shut off from the mainstream.†   (source)
  • "It was chaotic," says Tom.†   (source)
  • "Come in, children," she said, "I'm delighted to see you, but there's absolute chaos in this house today.†   (source)
  • Fumi and Eiko are helping the women there and they say the crowding, the noise, the confusion is chaos.†   (source)
  • He didn't know, couldn't know, how he or his people would perform in a chaotic situation involving intense fear of an unpleasant death.†   (source)
  • And while it provides a sanctuary from the chaos of Congo, the generator still goes off at 10 p. m.—and don't count on a hot shower.†   (source)
  • Five minutes of no sound but barking, five final minutes of peace before certain chaos.†   (source)
  • I definitely needed that, and having a direction to go—an actual destination—was one small good thing in the midst of my internal chaos.†   (source)
  • What prevented chaos and a stampede was the sight of Gebrew in his priest's garb.†   (source)
  • So much chaos in those days.†   (source)
  • The chaos was even greater here than in the large ghetto.†   (source)
  • This deprivation may have involved prolonged or recurrent absence of one or both parents, a chaotic family life in which the parents were unknown, or an outright rejection of the child by one or both parents with the child being raised by others...Evidence of disturbances in affect organization was seen.†   (source)
  • Prince Humperdinck made his angry way to the balcony above the Great Hall and stared down at the chaos.†   (source)
  • 'After a pleasant chat with the princesses, all that remains is a leisurely ride back through those chaotic crags whose frightening fiends have sworn to tear any intruder limb from limb and devour him down to his belt buckle.†   (source)
  • He stands in the middle of the chaos of kids, all grabbing gym bags, changing shirts, flashing Polaroids and hugging some more.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I think we are all like that myopic coiner at his press, taking the blind slugs one by one from the tray, all of us bent so jealously at our work, determined that not even chaos be outside of our own making.†   (source)
  • An orchestra of chaos, deafening to the ears, jarring the senses.†   (source)
  • Chaos—candy butchers vaulting over counters, workmen staggering out from under tent flaps, roustabouts racing headlong across the lot.†   (source)
  • But the surprise for Washington was how much had not been destroyed or carried off, so great had been the chaos and rush of the enemy in the last days.†   (source)
  • Inside, we're struck by chaos.†   (source)
  • I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears.†   (source)
  • For one thing, Peru hadn't used the same drugs during its period of chaotic tb control.†   (source)
  • There were thousands out there just like him, we were told, a generation of killers about to hurl the country into deepest chaos.†   (source)
  • He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.†   (source)
  • I woke up to chaos, to sailboats in trees, to shredded houses and ruined lives.†   (source)
  • Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos.†   (source)
  • Zohreh or Majid guided the car through incredible traffic jams, compounded by pedestrians willing to gamble their shabby lives and children who darted chaotically across crowded streets.†   (source)
  • The only reason the country is not in total chaos at this moment is that most people are too scared to venture out.†   (source)
  • It meant longer chow lines, longer laundry lines, more noise, more intrigue, and more chaos.†   (source)
  • Then, sweeping a view of the chaos, she rolled her eyes.†   (source)
  • Until now, his life has been chaotic and nomadic.†   (source)
  • Mom and I could get away during the chaos.†   (source)
  • But at the time, it was pure chaos.†   (source)
  • Glass, which I figured out had come from several broken picture frames, crunched under my feet as I made my way to the kitchen to get a trash bag — one would be necessary to clean up this chaos.†   (source)
  • In moments the entire Great Hall of Paralon had erupted in chaos.†   (source)
  • Decency is out, chaos is in—" As her brows lift, he nods.†   (source)
  • Without rules, chaos.†   (source)
  • An unbroken swarm lifted from the pond and buzzed in chaotic circles, as if confused by the sudden turn of events.†   (source)
  • The Japanese resistance there was far more concentrated than the Marines had been able to detect, and within minutes the churning water was a chaos of blood, bodies, and swamped equipment.†   (source)
  • The chaos in my head cleared for an instant as the lightbulb went on.†   (source)
  • At sunrise, the Rajah Bazaar was a scene of organized chaos that Mortenson found thrilling.†   (source)
  • Instead, when he'd met my gaze for a jolting moment, I'd seen life bursting through, chaotic and alluring beneath the shadow of the mask.†   (source)
  • And even as the guards rushed forward in sudden chaos, no one had been able to miss whom they were dragging away.†   (source)
  • Nass showed us up to his cramped and slightly chaotic office and then down the hall to his lab.†   (source)
  • My mom says that she takes happy pills, because no matter how chaotic things get at the office, she somehow keeps every gray hair perfectly in place, and nothing at all ever seems to disturb her.†   (source)
  • Sounis has pushed Attolia to the brink of a chaotic civil war.†   (source)
  • Its purpose is not to inspire emotionally, but to bring order out of chaos and make the unknown known.†   (source)
  • You have looked upon chaos and are not destroyed!†   (source)
  • Out on the sidewalk, the growing chaos was Jason's protection.†   (source)
  • There must be a balance between chaos and order, dark and light.†   (source)
  • The noise of the crowd was nothing compared with this chaos of sound.†   (source)
  • "In the midst of the resulting chaos, turmoil, and disorder," Yutar proclaimed, "it was planned by the accused to set up a Provisional Revolutionary Government to take over the administration and control of the country."†   (source)
  • Hunter stepped out of the chaos of his office into the tidy living room with its tall, many-paned windows and lofted ceiling.†   (source)
  • It is a time when the outcome will either send the territory toward peace and prosperity, or plunge its people into chaos and destruction.†   (source)
  • Once chaos crept in, any semblance of organized baseball fled the Monterrey team.†   (source)
  • But next poison call to Mort seemed to come from Alvarez, and what Mort had to say next day to Alvarez and what Alvaiez said in own defense can only be described as chaotic crossed with psychotic.†   (source)
  • Felicia's hair springs from her head like electric wires, and she swings her arms in great arcs, as if her chaos had a rhythm.†   (source)
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