scatteration
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Origin of scatteration
Example Sentences
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As SEC announced it would do last July, it set about breaking up this "scatteration" of utility holdings in the first exercise of its most bitterly attacked utility duty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Above all, Rockefeller's Oregon win increased what has been called the "scatteration" of strength in the Republican presidential picture.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Humphrey regime would probably be frenetic in its scatteration of ideas—and of money, too, if Humphrey's admitted "looking at the stars" is to be reduced to practical programs.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was like as if they'd been holding a meeting about the land, and the police were after interfering with it, such a scatteration as there was.
From The Simpkins Plot by Birmingham, George A.
Then shouts, general scatteration, some kind of a crash—He rubbed a bump upon his forehead, large as a guinea hen's egg.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
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