How to Use farrago in a Sentence
farrago
noun
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Yet there are two reasons to find hope in this farrago.
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The Economist,
30 Sep. 2017
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After this farrago, what can Montalbano do but agree to foot the bill for the letter/litter, too?
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Dennis Drabelle,
Washington Post,
12 Sep. 2019
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Indeed, the farrago signalled his strength as well as his weakness.
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The Economist,
23 June 2018
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This is a rich farrago of truth, misdirection, and hand-waving.
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David A. Graham,
The Atlantic,
6 July 2017
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True to form, Ms. Lipman blends a pair of highly appealing love stories into this farrago.
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Sam Sacks,
WSJ,
15 Feb. 2019
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Kara’s opening monologue gives a sense of the show’s tone, a farrago of hand-wringing and rustic absurdity, with a Freudian undercurrent.
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Dan Piepenbring,
The New Yorker,
1 May 2017
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Spicer’s overture statement was a farrago of false assertions, misleading stats, and embattled attitude, putting those Beltway press-corps punks on notice that there was a new sheriff in town.
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James Wolcott,
The Hive,
4 July 2017
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In that now-infamous press conference, Biden unloosed a farrago of wishful thinking, happy talk, half-truths, and blatant deceptions.
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Rich Lowry,
National Review,
20 Aug. 2021
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As Voltaire/Pangloss, Kevin Burdette made a brilliantly cynical cicerone through this farrago.
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Heidi Waleson,
WSJ,
6 Aug. 2018
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The Democratic party leader nevertheless teased that path to resolving the weeklong farrago.
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Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling,
The New Republic,
20 Oct. 2023
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Her childhood had been quietly calamitous, her father's career a farrago of alcoholism, shame, and secret homosexuality.
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Michael Chabon,
GQ,
27 Apr. 2018
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