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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Amoebidae — several very large amoebae.

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  • I have also started the tentatively titled Cast in Chaos, which is the first of the three new Cast novels I just sold Luna.

    Cast in Silence Cover, attempt one msagara 2009

  • I have also started the tentatively titled Cast in Chaos, which is the first of the three new Cast novels I just sold Luna.

    msagara: Cast in Silence Cover, attempt one msagara 2009

  • Nature has appointed happy fields, victorious laurel-crowns; but only to the brave and true: _Un_nature, what we call Chaos, holds nothing in it but vacuities, devouring gulfs.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Nature has appointed happy fields, victorious laurel-crowns; but only to the brave and true: _Un_nature, what we call Chaos, holds nothing in it but vacuities, devouring gulfs.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Chaos is Obama's plan, then and only then can he re-make our country into a socialist nightmare.

    Obama: 'If you misrepresent what's in the plan, we will call you out' 2009

  • M. John Harrison reviews Plan for Chaos by John Wyndham: "Despite its academic interest, Plan for Chaos is an almost unreadable book ... it comes with an introduction by Christopher Priest, which is a good deal more interesting than the book itself."

    SF Tidbits for 1/30/10 2010

  • By then the world is in Chaos and we be nuking any Muslim nation that that even talked about having nuclear what ever!

    U.S. military plans against Iran being updated 2010

  • Chaos is good for business, because it keeps both parties disorganized and disoriented, and props up the federal regulation strip-mining that conservatives installed in Bush I: A Thousand Points of Giveaway and "W," the dreadful Pennsylvania Avenue sequel with the eight year run.

    Brian Ross: Dumping the Tea Party in the Harbor Requires A Boycott and Real Campaign Finance Reform Brian Ross 2010

  • (Soundbite of vehicles) LAWRENCE: Chaos is a mild word to describe Torkham, where a constant flow of trucks, cars, pedestrians and even wheelbarrows carrying women and older men, cross back and forth.

    Afghan-Pakistan Border Blocks NATO, Not Taliban 2010

  • The January 27 issue of the Christian Science Monitor contains an article, "Theory in Chaos," that purports to reveal that literary theory no longer has the appeal among academic critics it had a decade ago.

    Literary Study 2009

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