as in eclectic
consisting of many things of different sorts
donated an indiscriminate jumble of toys, books, and old clothes to the rummage sale
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Recent Examples of indiscriminate
Rights experts and residents have accused the army of indiscriminate airstrikes as well as attacks on civilians, most recently revenge attacks in Wad Madani this week.
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Reuters, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2025
This administration’s legacy is stained with the blood of countless Palestinian civilians – men, women, and children – alongside the many captives killed in Israel’s indiscriminate bombing campaigns, carried out with U.S. backing.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2025
For instance, these groups criticized Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah as being indiscriminate because a handful of civilians were unfortunately injured and killed out of the thousands of Hezbollah fighters who were effectively removed from the battlefield.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
But the combination of executive orders, laws and military commands were indiscriminate and their brunt fell upon innocent Japanese Americans, who were forced into concentration camps without regard for their loyalty, only their ancestry.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
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Reuters, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2025
This administration’s legacy is stained with the blood of countless Palestinian civilians – men, women, and children – alongside the many captives killed in Israel’s indiscriminate bombing campaigns, carried out with U.S. backing.
—Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 15 Jan. 2025
For instance, these groups criticized Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah as being indiscriminate because a handful of civilians were unfortunately injured and killed out of the thousands of Hezbollah fighters who were effectively removed from the battlefield.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
But the combination of executive orders, laws and military commands were indiscriminate and their brunt fell upon innocent Japanese Americans, who were forced into concentration camps without regard for their loyalty, only their ancestry.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for indiscriminate
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So Far The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time The result is an eclectic project that ranges in tone from traditional country to Austin folk to blues.—
Josh Crutchmer,
Rolling Stone,
15 Feb. 2025
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The movement of this lamp adds an eclectic focal point in an otherwise neutral space.—
Lauren Thomann,
Better Homes & Gardens,
14 Feb. 2025
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Ghostly encounters are peppered through the promo, to varied levels of fear.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
18 Feb. 2025
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In stacked and varied casts during his time on the show, Sudeikis more than held his own, displaying a star wattage (even while playing a dancing sidekick) that's gone on to serve him especially well since leaving in 2013.—
Dennis Perkins,
EW.com,
16 Feb. 2025
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Trump's success record at Supreme Court mixed Trump’s record at the Supreme Court during his first administration was mixed.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA TODAY,
16 Feb. 2025
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But their tens of billions of dollars’ worth of weapons and financial aid have shown mixed results.—
Scott Peterson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
14 Feb. 2025
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In the theater space, he was involved with the company’s investment in Empire Street Productions, and assorted individual project investments on both Broadway and London’s West End (Prima Facie, The Band’s Visit).—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
18 Feb. 2025
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During his next half-century in Springfield, Madigan saw four governors go to prison along with busloads of legislative colleagues, judges, Chicago aldermen and assorted rogues who held public office around the state.—
Megan Crepeau,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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Lithgow makes Jim a foul-mouthed rebel, a reactionary against movements for non-binary and bisexual visibility, a promiscuous flirt, a narcissistic father, and a loving grandfather.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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For markets, this China-first approach has been manifest in Washington’s promiscuous use of unilateral sanctions against Asian companies that interact with China’s high-tech industrial base.—
Evan A. Feigenbaum,
Forbes,
5 Jan. 2025
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