as in mishmash
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Noun
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But the film is a total mess, start to finish: a mishmash of It and some military-thriller, monster-movie clichés culminating in a junky special-effects ending that barely makes sense.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
21 Feb. 2025 -
But this mishmash of marble wasn’t a scam to get the wealthy Weddell to purchase a seemingly intact statue of Athena.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Players can use a shuffle button to mix up the words on the screen if they get stuck.—
Mark Joseph,
Newsweek,
23 Feb. 2025
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Second-pairing shuffle The top line with top pairing innovation came from year one under Knoblauch, but his run of impressive tweaks has continued this season.—
Allan Mitchell,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Hughes’s mom has always disliked clutter, so these types of tasks really appeal to her.—
Theresa Tamkins,
SELF,
21 Feb. 2025
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The dirty floor was barely visible beneath the immense clutter of half-broken furniture; utensils and cooking appliances were streaked with saucy refuse; and people were packed together, yelling as if there weren’t just two centimeters of void between them.—
Hannah Gold,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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The fact this all plays out in real-time heightens that effect considerably, sweeping us up in the maelstrom of Hart’s bravado thanks to Hawke’s signature charm, even if it is undercut by something else barely concealed below the surface.—
David Opie,
IndieWire,
18 Feb. 2025
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Season 17 has thus far been a maelstrom of conflict, between Jewels vs. Onya, Suzie vs. the World, and a slew of other minor spats that on other seasons would be the most notable fight of the episode.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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Kikuchi’s three-year, $63 million deal looks like a bargain relative to the rest of the free-agent pitching market, but the other moves are the usual hodgepodge from a front office that never seems to have a big-picture plan.—
Chad Jennings,
The Athletic,
18 Feb. 2025
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For lunch, guests can choose from a seafood hodgepodge, beet and goat salad, burgers, and more.—
Tykesha Burton,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Dec. 2024
Noun
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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
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To our modern sensibilities, cabinets of curiosities may seem like random miscellanies lacking any real order.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Shapiro, who launched crisis PR firm 10th Avenue Consulting in 2015 after his lengthy tenure in the federal government, would seem an unconventional choice for Lively given that the spiraling legal morass has no obvious political ties.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
28 Feb. 2025
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However, starting a process early in President Trump's second term could prove helpful given the resulting legal morass, depending on the mechanism that the EPA employs to repeal it.—
Andrew Freedman,
Axios,
27 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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This made us—with all our human, mortal limitations—rather like the God of all those past centuries of belief, or should that be credulity: the God who retained and stored away everything in his motley, moveless time, in which nothing was new or old, remote or recent.—
Margaret Jull Costa,
Harper’s Magazine ,
10 Apr. 2023
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“Bollix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bollix. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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