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an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
an environmental issue that brought together a crazy quilt of people from all points on the political spectrum
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Recent Examples of crazy quilt
Spoonful, Woody Guthrie, and Eleanor Roosevelt – that just captured the whole crazy quilt of the Village arts and politics scene.
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Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
Woodcock’s solution is to go back to regulation; the government should renew the old restrictions on fares so consumers get clarity and fairness rather than today’s crazy quilt of dynamic pricing and extra fees.
—Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
My generational touchstones don’t form a cinematic canon as much as a crazy quilt of vibes, impulses, bat signals and dog whistles that — randomly, digressively, but somehow coherently — define the arc of a random, digressive, somehow coherent life.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
That leaves much of the regulatory responsibility to local governing bodies, with a resulting crazy quilt of rules.
—Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 1 June 2023
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Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
Woodcock’s solution is to go back to regulation; the government should renew the old restrictions on fares so consumers get clarity and fairness rather than today’s crazy quilt of dynamic pricing and extra fees.
—Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
My generational touchstones don’t form a cinematic canon as much as a crazy quilt of vibes, impulses, bat signals and dog whistles that — randomly, digressively, but somehow coherently — define the arc of a random, digressive, somehow coherent life.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
That leaves much of the regulatory responsibility to local governing bodies, with a resulting crazy quilt of rules.
—Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 1 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crazy quilt
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Carey will accept the award and celebrate the achievement with a career-spanning medley of her biggest hits at the Sept. 7 ceremony, live from New York’s UBS Arena.—
Shania Russell,
EW.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Jennifer Lopez returned as host for the first time in 10 years and opened the show with a medley of nearly two dozen of the year’s biggest hits.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
19 Aug. 2025
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Google came back with a variety of domestic and international destinations that fit my description.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2025
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This is particularly important for the healthcare field, especially for enterprises use-cases, as healthcare data is largely unstructured and frequently found in a variety of different modalities.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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The licensing deal, which will end in August 2026, allowed Target to sell a smaller and rotating assortment of makeup, skincare, hair care products and more that are carried by the full Ulta stores.—
Melissa Repko,
CNBC,
28 Aug. 2025
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Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka made a deliberate choice for a glitzy jacket that featured an assortment of red crystals.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
27 Aug. 2025
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In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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Instead, voters themselves are jumbles of competing and sometimes contradictory interests.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
14 Feb. 2025
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Watch the video above to see a collage of the devoted pup completing his daily mission with passion!—
Ronnie Li,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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These collages of images represent Mescal’s artist goals and dreams, serving as a daily force of inspiration.—
Sophie Williams,
Billboard,
22 Aug. 2025
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As such, the shift to full encryption matters less to Apple than to Google, which is all in on RCS and even took control of the global rollout across its Android ecosystem, rather than rely on the patchwork quilt of mobile networks to run a slower process.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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Over the last seven days, my schedule has looked like a patchwork quilt, spanning several distinct sectors of the health care industry.—
Alexis Kayser,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
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Troops and agents from an alphabet soup of different agencies have set up checkpoints on busy city arteries, injecting their authority into daily life.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
21 Aug. 2025
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An alphabet soup of federal agencies have been circulating in the city.—
Matt Brown,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Crazy quilt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crazy%20quilt. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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