Thesaurus results for MISHMASH

mishmash

noun

ˈmish-ˌmash

as in jumble

an unorganized collection or mixture of various things the painting was just a mishmash of colors and abstract shapes as far as we could tell

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Recent Examples of mishmash Much of the group’s cosmology derives from The Urantia Book, a mishmash of Christianity, metaphysics, and esoteric spirituality, that was purportedly written by celestial beings and published anonymously in 1955. —

Jane Borden, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2026 Inside, the main floor has been commandeered by a mishmash of cash-only Asian food stalls, which gives it the feel of a makeshift street market. —

Hazlitt, 10 Dec. 2025 But to support new, massively heavier modern towers, engineers needed to drill dozens, even hundreds of augered cast-in-place (ACIP) piles – essentially, oversized columns to transfer the weight of a building through the mishmash of sand, silt and peat into deeper, more solid layers. —

Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 1 Dec. 2025 Built mostly by the aerospace firm Rocket Lab, launched by Blue Origin and led by the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, ESCAPADE is also a test to see if a mishmash of academic and commercial teams can send a twin-orbiter mission to Mars for under $100 million. —

Morgan McFall-Johnsen, Scientific American, 13 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mishmash

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Noun

Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.

— Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.

— Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026