as in mishmash
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Noun
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The mishmash of those layers is accentuated by you, the player, having controlled Joel as a character this whole time and thus having partial ownership over his heinous/heroic acts.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
26 May 2025 -
Embrace this street styler’s playful sensibilities with a similarly coordinating mishmash of pink-toned pieces from Bode, Guest in Residence, and Zara.—
Talia Abbas,
Vogue,
27 Mar. 2025
Noun
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John Cena walked into WrestleMania 41 in Las Vegas with the polite shuffle of a man reporting for overtime.—
Oliver Bateman,
The Washington Examiner,
30 May 2025
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Hours later, the shuffle within the agency was announced.—
Dan Gooding
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
Noun
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That was huge for us in breaking through the clutter, especially when video was relatively new on that platform.—
Dave Knox,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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Tackle your bathroom cabinets: Skincare, hair products, makeup, and medicine can quickly clutter bathroom cabinets, drawers, and countertops.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 June 2025
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Even if Florida dodges a direct hit by a major hurricane this year, the uncertainty of storm-prediction capabilities and recovery aid are likely to drive Florida’s property insurance industry into a maelstrom of uncertainty, potentially fueling catastrophic rate increases.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 June 2025
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Years before the current maelstrom in Washington, a group of university leaders, business leaders, government and military leaders was working to position U.S. higher education in a new light.—
David Rosowsky,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Through the early 1950s, a hodgepodge of state and industry agencies controlled what happened within the 158,000 miles of airways over the country.—
Vanessa Romo,
NPR,
14 May 2025
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Dave Keeling maintained this record, known as the Keeling Curve, using a running hodgepodge of short-term grants until 2005, at which point geochemist Ralph Keeling, a professor at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, coauthor of this piece and Dave’s son, assumed its stewardship.—
Eric Morgan,
Wired News,
10 May 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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Florence illustrates the potential of the agentic AI approach when confronting the bureaucratic morass.—
Ray Ravaglia,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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With the Swiss army closely monitoring the situation, flooding worsened during the day as vast mounds of debris almost two kilometers across clogged the path of the River Lonza, causing a huge lake to form amid the wreckage and raising fears that the morass could dislodge.—
Dave Graham,
Christian Science Monitor,
29 May 2025
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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 10 Jun. 2025.
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