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Discover LudwigThe word 'anarchy' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a state of disorder due to the absence of governmental authority. For example, "After the successful revolution, the country plunged into anarchy."
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anarchy
noun
The state of a society being without authorities or an authoritative governing body.
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Contrary to Hoey's belief, I don't do this because I have a diabolical love of anarchy.
In a new paper in Foreign Affairs, Robert Muggah, research director at the Igarapé Institute in Brazil, says anarchy now rules in some places.
After Blair had insisted that the European Union's restrictions on hours and rights of dismissal would reduce employment, Chirac asked him, "Am I on the right and you on the left, or is it the other way round?" He then added that "England" had a weakness for "social anarchy".
Al-Qaida and its sympathisers may yet prevail in the country-wide Hobbesian strife, or Yemen may dissolve into anarchy, like nearby Somalia.
Reviewing Johnson's dictionary, Lord Chesterfield wrote that the English language was in "a state of anarchy" and required the firm smack of discipline: "Toleration, adoption and naturalisation have run their lengths.
But despite the touches of visual anarchy, Told By An Idiot's version is still recognisably the brilliantly funny thriller that occurred to Ridley one cold and lonely night in 1923.
There were a sizable number of Lib Dems protesting against their own party's U-turn on fees, and a sit-in outside parliament – the peace protesters who reside there were happy to give the students a quick lesson in the true meaning of anarchy.
I like to think he may be mocking the anarchy of the online world.
What the would-be linguistic dictators called the "anarchy" of the English language has been redefined by writers from the greater anglophone world as its great generosity.
If the authorities and some of the domestic media are to be believed, Egypt's foreign press corps are all secret members of the Brotherhood, creating Islamist anarchy and mischief on behalf of al-Jazeera (now deemed a Brotherhood mouthpiece and banned from operating in Egypt).
It seems that menstrual activism (otherwise known as radical menstruation, menstrual anarchy, or menarchy) is having a moment.
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