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Recent Examples of shambolic
During Boeing’s difficult 2024, whistleblowers from within the company came forward with complaints about shambolic internal processes in the production of its 737 and 787 aircraft.
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David Hodari, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2025
So luridly shambolic was Boursinos’s life that those who knew him warned me that his story would be hard to tell.
—Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
That withdrawal brought to a shambolic end the longest war ever fought by the United States.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Redick’s prior coaching experience was limited to running the fourth-grade boys’ team at the Brooklyn Basketball Academy as a volunteer, and the Lakers’ coaching search was hilariously shambolic, but still no one was surprised when Redick was announced.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
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David Hodari, NBC News, 3 Jan. 2025
So luridly shambolic was Boursinos’s life that those who knew him warned me that his story would be hard to tell.
—Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
That withdrawal brought to a shambolic end the longest war ever fought by the United States.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
Redick’s prior coaching experience was limited to running the fourth-grade boys’ team at the Brooklyn Basketball Academy as a volunteer, and the Lakers’ coaching search was hilariously shambolic, but still no one was surprised when Redick was announced.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shambolic
Adjective
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The result is a topsy-turvy movie that is also spiritually profound in ways that the Marvel and DC franchises don’t dare but that became abstruse and chaotic in Snyder’s many Rebel Moon iterations.—
Armond White,
National Review,
14 Mar. 2025
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Meanwhile, the White House’s on-again, off-again approach to tariffs with our major trading partners is so chaotic, it can barely be called a policy.—
MoneyShow,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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This is the latest in a series of disorderly trade policy moves that have stoked fears of tipping the U.S. economy into a recession.—
Lisa Kailai Han,Sean Conlon,
CNBC,
10 Mar. 2025
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Jennifer, when curating her vintage realm, realized that the term has two sides: while some think of exuberant, flamboyant pieces gathered in one disorderly shop, others imagine vintage as high-end, inaccessible to the average customer.—
Grace Butler,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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In the past, Jamil has openly discussed her own journey recovering from anorexia and disordered eating.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
27 Dec. 2024
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Thus did the conservative loose cannonballs come eventually to dominate the GOP—and define our disordered political era.—
Daniel Schlozman & Sam Rosenfeld / Made by History,
TIME,
10 June 2024
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“Shambolic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shambolic. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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