noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
total
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On the evening of 20 November the Prime Minister's swift decision to fight on plunged the Conservatives into almost total disarray .
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They were in total disarray from the start.
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However, John de Wolf made it 3-0 after 52 minutes and from then San Marino were in total disarray .
■ VERB
fall
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Almost certainly textiles had fallen into some disarray by early 1524.
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His election as president seemed certain, even before the Radicals fell into disarray with Mr Sourrouille's resignation.
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Soon after Five Easy Pieces and his affair with Anspach, his own personal life fell into disarray .
throw
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But a Cup replay would throw those plans into disarray .
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This might be thought to throw into disarray our grounds for specifying what animals see, hear, and otherwise sense.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
throw sb/sth into confusion/chaos/disarray etc
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Advancing on a narrow front, the bristling schiltrons threw their opponents into confusion on such unfamiliar, unstable ground.
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But a Cup replay would throw those plans into disarray.
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He briefly dissolved Congress in 1992 to successfully fight two guerrilla insurgencies that had thrown the country into chaos.
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However, the death of Vial shortly afterwards threw everything into confusion.
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Instead, it was going directly across their path, which threw them into confusion.
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It was their starting-point that was often illogical or arbitrary and threw the listener into confusion.
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Now the ruling, which could open the way for new prosecutions, has thrown the issue into chaos.
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Since the middle of the 1870s a world monetary depression had thrown trade into confusion.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Meade was pushed back, his formations in disarray .
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Now that global capitalism is in disarray , it would make sense to support local businesses.
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On the whole, the Empire's fortunes were good, and the land remained united despite interludes of disarray .
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The teaching profession is in disarray , speaking with no coherent voice.