as in mishmash
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Noun
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The 2023 Commanders, however, went through a mishmash of centers despite starting inexperienced quarterback Sam Howell.—
Ben Standig,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025 -
Like many great adaptations, then, Eggers' version is a mishmash of inspirations coming together to create a bloody great concoction.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA TODAY,
25 Dec. 2024
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If stuck, players can hit the shuffle button, which will mix up where the words appear on the screen.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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The comprehensive 3-0 victory seemed to get lost in the shuffle in a gameweek when the Rome derby took precedence and the Italian Super Cup in Saudi Arabia served up thrilling football.—
James Horncastle,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
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The overall feel is open and elegant with less clutter from buttons and levers.—
Scotty Reiss,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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That is where the bureaucratic clutter cutting comes in, along with efforts to change at least parts of the spy agency’s culture.—
Julian E. Barnes,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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What all this gives us is something of an AI maelstrom as complex as a rabbit warren.—
Adrian Bridgwater,
Forbes,
25 Sep. 2024
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The emotion is deep and rich and understandable because for seven years — trying and failing to buy the club, then trying and succeeding and then a maelstrom of work and achievement — Newcastle have been Staveley’s life, often to the detriment of family.—
George Caulkin,
The Athletic,
29 July 2024
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As Newsweek Sports continues its survey of the Top 10 players at each position in Major League Baseball, second base stands out as a distinct hodgepodge.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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The moderate temperature also gives you enough time to move the eggs around and avoid a hodgepodge of overcooked and undercooked eggs.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
The Denver Post,
1 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
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Yet this long, obscure miscellany turned out to be a garland of little gems.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Oct. 2024
Noun
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As my colleague Ian Bogost remarked in a post on Bluesky this week, the morass of social-media posts and news articles often felt empty.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
12 Dec. 2024
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Carey thinks that the innovators that will emerge from the current morass relatively unscathed are the ones that have benefited from a parent company’s fiscal and resource scaffolding from the get-go.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Sep. 2019
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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 29 Jan. 2025.
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