Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 27 June 2022 The recall of left-wing prosecutor Chesa Boudin in San Francisco and the rise of mayoral candidate Rick Caruso in Los Angeles are apt punishment for progressive policies that have produced rising urban anarchy. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 30 June 2022 Fortunately for these depositors, the law doesn't think in terms of either financial anarchy or legal mists, but instead operates to sort things out into discrete pigeonholes. Marc Hirsh,, The rage at the failure and corruption of a ruling elite has been matched by generosity and ingenuity to prevent complete collapse and anarchy.ī, 19 July 2022 Some call them spa plates or have an eek, a getcheroni, a goblin meal, rags and bottles, engage in an anarchy kitchen or a blackout bingo, go feral, go Darwin, oogle moogle or serve a jungle dinner. Sam Negus, National Review, 3 July 2022 Boston native Charlotte Sands performed metallic emo-pop under a logo that replaced the A’s in her name with an anarchy symbol and a broken heart, which summed her up well. Recent Examples on the Web The clarity of his moral politics may be appealing, but the radical autonomy of his approach amounts to anarchy. When the teacher was absent, there was anarchy in the classroom. Fred Lerner, The Story of Libraries, (1945) 1998 Anarchy reigned in the empire's remote provinces. David Baird, Continental, February 1999 The anarchy of the Internet may be daunting for the neophyte, but it differs little from the bibliographical chaos that is the result of five and a half centuries of the printing press. The Silver Cities survived not only the bloody revolution of 1821 but also the ensuing century of anarchy and bloodshed.
2000 But by the early 1800s, the mines began to play out, and the colonists challenged the Spanish throne for independence.
Austin Murphy, Sports Illustrated, 27 Nov. 2006 Fueled by booze and the euphoria of having seen their school win a share of its first … title in 36 years, a mob of Beavers fans hurled itself at the cops, breaching both chains and creating anarchy. Caroline Moorehead, New York Review of Books, 16 Nov. Its immigration policies in the last five years have become the envy of those in the West who see in all but the most restrictive laws the specter of terrorism and social anarchy. When first used in English, this word carried the sole meaning “government by the best individuals.” It may still be used in such a fashion, but more commonly, it is encountered in the extended sense “the aggregate of those believed to be superior.” The establishment of these two senses of anarchy did not stop the word from being applied outside the realm of government with the broadened meaning ”a state of confusion or disorder.” The existence of definitions that are in semantic conflict does not imply that one (or more) of them is wrong it simply shows that multisense words like anarchy mean different things in different contexts.Īnother example of a sense-shifting word relating to government is aristocracy. A similar but ameliorated meaning began to be employed in the 19th century in reference to a Utopian society that had no government. The earliest recorded use of the word, from the early 16th century, meant simply “absence of government,” albeit with the implication of civil disorder.
Anarchy exemplifies how words may have similar yet distinctive meanings.
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