chaotic

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adjective

Origin of chaotic

First recorded in 1705–15; chao(s) + -tic

Simulations that revealed just how chaotic a space we live in.
We Never Know Exactly Where We’re Going in Outer Space - Issue 92: Frontiers | Caleb Scharf | November 4, 2020 | Nautilus
If you can still think back across the vast eons of time to April of 2020, you’ll recall that the early weeks of the pandemic were a chaotic period for primary voting.
What Two Studies With Very Different Findings Can Tell Us About Voting In A Pandemic | Maggie Koerth (maggie.koerth-baker@fivethirtyeight.com) | November 2, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight
When Panama City Beach dialed down spring break, which had become chaotic and even violent, hotel occupancy tax revenue fell 41% the following year.
The pandemic is damaging the economic ecosystems around universities | Geoffrey Colvin | October 30, 2020 | Fortune
In the age of the “buy now” button, we are collectively failing to acknowledge how climate change, resource overconsumption, and biodiversity loss are sentencing coming generations to live on a chaotic planet.
“Are we being good ancestors?” should be the central question of our time | Katie McLean | October 21, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
Wisconsin’s chaotic April 7 primary was the first major election with in-person voting since states began issuing stay-at-home orders.
Voting In The 2020 Primaries Didn’t Worsen The COVID-19 Pandemic | Eric Feltham (eric.feltham@yale.edu) | October 15, 2020 | FiveThirtyEight

The concert was chaotically virtuosic: an ideal rockist combo.
Is Jack White the Last True Rock Star? | Andrew Romano | June 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Yet the difficulty was in capturing the immediacy of a narrative that was chaotically in motion.
Steve Mumford: The Artist Who Went to War | Justin Jones | February 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The scene begins chaotically, as Sondheim interrupts the recording and tells Dean Jones to try again.
Sondheim on Sondheim: American Musical Theater in Six Songs | Jimmy So | December 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
That openness made the early Google a chaotically fecund operation.
The Google Religion | Josh Dzieza | July 15, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
He must speak as the bird sings, not mechanically, but out of a full heart, yet not chaotically or from random impulses.
Browning and the Dramatic Monologue | S. S. Curry
Some cautious pen pusher behind a desk, he thought chaotically.
Decision | Frank M. Robinson
As these thoughts jumbled chaotically through my mind, I turned my eyes to the floor beneath.
Latitude 19 degree | Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield
The Romany hesitated, then shook his head and muttered chaotically.
The World For Sale, Complete | Gilbert Parker
And everything was flowing in the yard, chaotically mingled; manure and farming implements, staves and straw.
Pictures of Sweden | Hans Christian Andersen

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