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  • adjective Partially chaotic.

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  • adjective Partially chaotic.

Etymologies

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semi- +‎ chaotic

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Examples

  • The laboratories fitted the 1950s mad-scientist stereotype: semichaotic and crammed full of spectrometers, chemical lasers, and manifold catalyzing experiments, most of which seemed to be housed inside Robbie-the-Robot stainless-steel casings.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • The laboratories fitted the 1950s mad-scientist stereotype: semichaotic and crammed full of spectrometers, chemical lasers, and manifold catalyzing experiments, most of which seemed to be housed inside Robbie-the-Robot stainless-steel casings.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • The laboratories fitted the 1950s mad-scientist stereotype: semichaotic and crammed full of spectrometers, chemical lasers, and manifold catalyzing experiments, most of which seemed to be housed inside Robbie-the-Robot stainless-steel casings.

    When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010

  • Instead, the story is going to be of improbable startups that launched in some semichaotic communal work space where free agents toiled side by side with other free agents they didn't know from Adam.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Eager high-school volunteers, skilled plumbers, veteran carpenters, and Rebuilding Together Oakland officials all keep an eye on the semichaotic bustle.

    unknown title 2009

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