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disarray | American Dictionary

disarray
noun[ U ]
us/ˌdɪs·əˈreɪ/
a messy or confused condition, showing a lack of organization:
Many party members believe the campaign is in disarray.
The apartment was in complete disarray.

Examples of disarray

disarray
Furthermore, normal features of cell death in the form of coordinated apoptosis could be thrown into disarray by damaging feedback influences from degradation products.
Furthermore, the general disarray in the management of purchases promoted political favours and a good deal of corruption.
Muscular disarray is found similarly to that seen in the non-syndromic form.
In other images, these components seem to be already in disarray.
The credit programmes were in disarray due to very high default rates with the low maize prices offered in 1994.
Full recovery took almost two years, during which life and field seasons continued amid much disarray.
Impairments in attention may be one cognitive deficit resulting from disarrayed cell positioning and nonoptimal neural connections.
The parameters studied were capillary/myocyte relation, capillary density and patterning, fibrosis, myocardial disarray and hypertrophy.
These workers stressed the almost constant presence of disarray in the hypertrophic zones.
Many of the parties that called themselves socialist are in disarray.
Disarray of myocardial fibers and endocardial fibrosis was seen.
We found this hypertrophic septal region to have microscopic myofiber disarray in all three cases.
And in such an adventure two things happen: our habitual values (the 'commonsense' of bourgeois society) are thrown into disarray.
The gross disarray of the myocardial fascicles was undoubtedly of developmental origin and might properly be described as a congenital cardiomyopathy.
Additional equipment had not yet arrived and the studio was thus in disarray.
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