adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a busy/hectic lifestyle
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Many people these days have a busy lifestyle.
a hectic/frantic pace (= a very fast and hurried speed )
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We worked at a hectic pace.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
day
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Time spent in taking stock is time well spent, even in the middle of a hectic day .
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Another hectic day was unfolding outside.
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Well ... it looked as if tomorrow might be a very hectic day indeed.
days
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Gone are those hectic days of summer, the helicopters, the crowding.
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In the hectic days of I 96 I, such exploratory care and effort were virtually impossible.
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The Navy has spent several hectic days examining the wayward bombs.
pace
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By now the band were alternating their touring and recording schedules at a hectic pace .
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Or, should they be slowing down because sooner or later their hectic pace will do them in?
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The game was played at a hectic pace with chances at both ends right to the final whistle.
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We worked at a hectic pace .
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Peter Hall directs all this at a hectic pace around Carl Toms's lavish set.
schedule
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The split was caused mainly by work - both his and Tessa's hectic schedules never seemed to meet.
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Despite his increasingly hectic schedule , Haden graciously took time out to be interviewed about the Quartet and the Jazzfest tour.
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With the birth less than six weeks away, Jacqui is juggling a hectic schedule between work and planning for the new arrival.
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The hectic schedule ended in Cheltenham, where the Liberal democrats hope to overturn a Conservative majority of just under 5,000.
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The prince and princess's hectic schedule of engagements will be closely observed by royal watchers.
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But they reckoned without their hectic schedule .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He'd just returned from a hectic 10-day trip to New York.
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I know you have a hectic schedule, but could you pick something up for me on your way home?
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In the last hectic weeks before the show started we were practically living in the theatre to get it ready on time.
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It's been a pretty hectic week.
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It was really hectic at work today.
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There are two hundred guests arriving in one hour! That's why things are so hectic !
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During the month of hectic packing and training at Fort Benning, I barely knew who they were.
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I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months.
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It was pretty hectic - and scary.
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Peter Hall directs all this at a hectic pace around Carl Toms's lavish set.
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The last few days had been hectic and exhausting.
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The Navy has spent several hectic days examining the wayward bombs.
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The summer of 1990 was too hectic .
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Time spent in taking stock is time well spent, even in the middle of a hectic day.