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Discover LudwigThe phrase "almost hectic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that is close to being chaotic or overly busy, but not quite there.
Example: "The week leading up to the event was almost hectic, with last-minute preparations and unexpected challenges."
Alternatives: "nearly chaotic" or "borderline frantic".
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The pace of the movie is rapid, almost hectic, the touch glancing.
But he compensated with a fevered, almost hectic approach to the fast passages (still played with the utmost brilliance ) and a searching statement of the slow movement that withheld easy emotionality in favor of a rigor that anticipated our time.
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On the whole, though, it is real and visceral, maintaining a pace almost too hectic to sustain.
Friday night's main-stage closing acts, Hot Chip and Dizzee Rascal, have both matured into expert festival turns, one increasingly fluid and poignant, the other, peaking with a laser-strafed Bonkers, almost absurdly hectic.
Next year he will not see them "unless luck is there and I get R and R in the summer". Life for the roughly 3,800 soldiers of 1st Brigade is almost as hectic at Fort Stewart as it is in the desert, because their unit has only a year off the battlefield to rebuild lost manpower and equipment, train, and get ready for another deployment.
Another way, though, would be to see the past two years as extraordinarily hectic, almost on a par with her frantic schedule as secretary of state.
But what about those hectic reds?
Traffic is hectic and almost unbearable, so noise pollution rules.
For action so hectic it almost threatens to spill off the page, go to Caryl Hart's Catch That Rat! (Simon and Schuster, £6.99).
Kitaj's compositions seem hectic and confusing, almost to the point of incoherence - something he wanted to declare but couldn't, something tangled and private.
It took almost 36 hours, but his hectic driving schedule finally got the better of Bruce R. DuPont, the Midwest sales manager for ControlAir Inc., a maker of precision air converters, based in Amherst, N.H.
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