as in mishmash
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Noun
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So would sorting out the legal and financial mishmash left by the exit of foreign companies.—
Patricia Cohen,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025 -
First, there’s the tendency to lump the entire continent together, leading to a mishmash of accents, clothing, and traditions that don’t belong to any one place.—
Susan Akyeampong,
refinery29.com,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Randall hunched over his drums and played a fast Ringo shuffle.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2025
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Players can use a shuffle button to mix up the words on the screen if they get stuck.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Snag a new bed, decorative throw pillow for spring, and extra storage finds to clear out clutter while nearly the entire site is up to 82 percent off — which includes Kelly Clarkson’s home collection.—
Megan Schaltegger,
People.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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Search efforts were complicated by an inordinate amount of clutter that was adding to the debris, police told News 12.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
17 Mar. 2025
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Into this maelstrom steps O’Brien, whose comedic persona has never been particularly political.—
Ashraf Khalil,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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Still, a good guide will provide general clues on how to mitigate any economic maelstrom.—
Chris Carosa,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
Noun
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This isn’t about memorizing the job description—largely a meaningless hodgepodge of skills, qualifications and platitudes about work style and culture cribbed from past job descriptions and competitors’ postings.—
Michael B. Horn,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Last season, the Red Sox had to make due with a hodgepodge infield configuration and several young, inexperienced players when Trevor Story, Triston Casas, and Vaughn Grissom all suffered lengthy injuries.—
Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Ashmole also tried his hand at poetry, and the miscellany even contains a few of his pieces.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Mar. 2025
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The long-standing curse of the new-music concert is a tendency toward miscellany.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The culture and system of DOC has solidified into this morass of unaccountability and negligence that can probably only be excised from without, by an official not tethered to it or the city’s broader political strictures.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
21 Mar. 2025
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There's this huge morass of gray that both Mark and Cecil [Walton Goggins], and most of our characters, exist in.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Her goal is to start a women’s consciousness-raising group, and her efforts have brought together a motley, inquisitive quintet.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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Kaan kaan wu, with its motley of melds, is where these two tiles from different suits can be used in a clean-sweeping hand.—
Rudy Lee,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2023
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“Bollix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bollix. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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