as in mishmash
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Noun
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So would sorting out the legal and financial mishmash left by the exit of foreign companies.—
Patricia Cohen,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025 -
First, there’s the tendency to lump the entire continent together, leading to a mishmash of accents, clothing, and traditions that don’t belong to any one place.—
Susan Akyeampong,
refinery29.com,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Randall hunched over his drums and played a fast Ringo shuffle.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
16 Mar. 2025
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Players can use a shuffle button to mix up the words on the screen if they get stuck.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Consider this an opportunity to clear the emotional clutter and make peace with the past.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
5 Mar. 2025
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Reduce clutter so there are fewer hiding spaces for bed bugs.—
Nancy LeBrun,
Verywell Health,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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We are caught up in a political maelstrom, and yet the effect is startlingly intimate.—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
16 Jan. 2025
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Popular on Variety Robby, a calm and experienced leader with a phenomenal bedside manner, acts as a center of gravity in an ever-swirling maelstrom of doctors, nurses, students, social workers, ambulance drivers, administrators and patients.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
9 Jan. 2025
Noun
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That’s because Gulf & Western was a hodgepodge the parts of which were more valuable than the whole and Bluhdorn was seen as an obstacle to breaking it up. Carl Icahn and other corporate raiders piled in, and the stock rose by nearly 40% during the week after Bluhdorn’s death.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2025
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Or will Black Spire Outpost fall out of canon and become a hodgepodge of Star Wars history?—
Brady MacDonald,
Orange County Register,
7 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Ashmole also tried his hand at poetry, and the miscellany even contains a few of his pieces.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Mar. 2025
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The long-standing curse of the new-music concert is a tendency toward miscellany.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The legal morass created by this scheme doesn't end there.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
12 Mar. 2025
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Shapiro, who launched crisis PR firm 10th Avenue Consulting in 2015 after his lengthy tenure in the federal government, would seem an unconventional choice for Lively given that the spiraling legal morass has no obvious political ties.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
28 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Her goal is to start a women’s consciousness-raising group, and her efforts have brought together a motley, inquisitive quintet.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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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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“Bollix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bollix. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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