as in mishmash
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Noun
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The intertwining plots unroll in a mishmash of styles.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Dec. 2024 -
This show has always featured a strange mishmash of tones, but the ensemble is more spread out than ever now, and with Kevin Costner gone, there’s no longer an anchor.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
18 Nov. 2024
Noun
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If stuck, players can hit the shuffle button, which will mix up where the words appear on the screen.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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The comprehensive 3-0 victory seemed to get lost in the shuffle in a gameweek when the Rome derby took precedence and the Italian Super Cup in Saudi Arabia served up thrilling football.—
James Horncastle,
The Athletic,
10 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Having a space that is clear of clutter and with fewer stimuli creates feelings of calm and concentration.—
Ana Morales,
Vogue,
10 Jan. 2025
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Savvy forwards can take advantage of the clutter and get away with bending the rules, too.—
Mark Lazerus,
The Athletic,
9 Jan. 2025
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We have long been treated like the runt of the litter, distancing ourselves from politics and known for having low voter turnouts.—
Gil Rebollar,
The Mercury News,
7 Jan. 2025
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Expand All Large shards of fiberglass debris litter the bay bottom just outside channel Marker 15 along Cutter Bank at the southern edge of Biscayne Bay — another possible indicator of the moments leading up to a fatal Labor Day weekend boat crash.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Amid the maelstrom, doctors, nurses and other caregivers did their jobs.—
Emily Alpert Reyes,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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Since then, Lively—along with Reynolds, to a degree—has found herself at the center of a fast-moving media maelstrom.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
4 Jan. 2025
Noun
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As Newsweek Sports continues its survey of the Top 10 players at each position in Major League Baseball, second base stands out as a distinct hodgepodge.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
17 Jan. 2025
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The moderate temperature also gives you enough time to move the eggs around and avoid a hodgepodge of overcooked and undercooked eggs.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
The Denver Post,
1 Jan. 2025
Noun
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To our modern sensibilities, cabinets of curiosities may seem like random miscellanies lacking any real order.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
8 Jan. 2025
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Yet this long, obscure miscellany turned out to be a garland of little gems.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Carey thinks that the innovators that will emerge from the current morass relatively unscathed are the ones that have benefited from a parent company’s fiscal and resource scaffolding from the get-go.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
3 Sep. 2019
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For such writers and thinkers, including Jean-François Lyotard, Hannah Arendt, and Heinrich Blücher, history felt like a betrayal in which former traditions and institutions had collapsed, leaving behind a morass of emptiness and fractured communities.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
4 Dec. 2024
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