as in variety
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
the festival featured a grab bag of independent films from widely disparate genres
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Recent Examples of grab bag
There will also be exciting opportunity drawings and grab bags.
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Sharon Hlapcich, Orange County Register, 20 Feb. 2025
His team has put forward not a comprehensive economic plan but a grab bag of proposals for tax cuts, tariffs, and financial deregulation.
—Mariana Mazzucato, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
That’s a very random and horrifying grab bag of sounds.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
Her most incredible discovery yet came from one of these Marketplace purchases: an 8-pound jewelry grab bag.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
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Sharon Hlapcich, Orange County Register, 20 Feb. 2025
His team has put forward not a comprehensive economic plan but a grab bag of proposals for tax cuts, tariffs, and financial deregulation.
—Mariana Mazzucato, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
That’s a very random and horrifying grab bag of sounds.
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
Her most incredible discovery yet came from one of these Marketplace purchases: an 8-pound jewelry grab bag.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 14 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grab bag
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But that share has declined in recent years, as brands including Ford (7.5%), Chevrolet (5.2%) and Hyundai (4.7%) began to offer a wider variety of electric models at better price points, according to Kelley Blue Book.—
Time,
Time,
4 Apr. 2025
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Many other long Senate speeches in history offer a variety of useful historical hints about the political significance of Booker’s record-breaking speech.—
Charlie Hunt,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 2025
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What was wrong with an assortment of kingdoms, fiefdoms, and tribes?—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
7 Apr. 2025
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From an assortment standpoint, data helps massively as well.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The medley of cheeses is carefully chosen to achieve richness and depth.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Apr. 2025
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In 2015, Lopez, 55, opened the awards ceremony by dancing to a medley of the biggest songs from that year.—
Marina Watts,
People.com,
9 Apr. 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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Baker also leads the orchestra, which sounds grand — although the sound in the arts center’s Pugh Theater often left musicians, lead singers and chorus all at the same level, with actors speaking over all of it at the same time to create a sonic jumble.—
Matthew J. Palm,
Orlando Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2025
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These articles and practices align with Self’s idea of collage as representative of selfhood and that humans exist in multiple dimensions.—
Essence,
Essence,
25 Mar. 2025
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The collage of photos showed Chloe asleep, the couple on the red carpet and the basketball court as well as the national champion on vacation.—
Nasha Smith,
People.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Too much economic uncertainty breeds housing uncertainty, bringing a mixed bag to mortgages.—
Kevin Williams,
Quartz,
13 Mar. 2025
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Input lag results are a mixed bag.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
12 Mar. 2025
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Plus, its indoor-outdoor design – with sliding barn doors and a shaded patio – offers the perfect blend of comfort and immersion in nature.—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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The blend was inspired by the Golden Ratio: 61.8 percent whisky aged in European oak and 38.2 percent aged in American oak, which were married together for a final 15 months before being bottled in this stunning decanter.—
Jonah Flicker,
Robb Report,
4 Apr. 2025
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“Grab bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grab%20bag. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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