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a state of confusion, disturbance, or disorder
- The turmoil of an earlier era has been replaced by a sad and rootless anomie.p. 80.2
- "For a child growing up in the turmoil of [postwar] Berlin .... the Americans were angels," Christa Maerker, a Berlin filmmaker, wrote in an essay on postwar Germany's infatuation with the United States.p. 232.1
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