as in mishmash
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Noun
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Kahn also has a mishmash of other investors and partners.—
Matthew Geiger,
Denver Post,
28 Mar. 2025 -
And that help is not 5,000 random police officers from a mishmash of 10 different developing countries led by the Kenyans, who have never led a security mission in history.—
Azhar Fateh,
Fox News,
21 Mar. 2025
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In 2021, Congress passed a bill authorizing TSA to develop a pilot program that could end the recheck shuffle stateside.—
Bailey Berg,
AFAR Media,
25 Mar. 2025
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Offensive linemen: The shuffle continues with several players crosstraining: Olaus Alinen, Casey Poe and Michael Carroll, who were recruited to play interior positions, are getting tackle reps to help with depth.—
Kennington Smith III,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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According to Campbell, here’s the psychological impact of clutter: Research shows that cluttered environments significantly affect mental health.—
Dominique Fluker,
Essence,
2 Apr. 2025
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Pulling from studies by Princeton University (among others), Verywell Mind reports that home clutter may be linked to feelings of depression and anxiety.—
Christopher Rosa,
Glamour,
2 Apr. 2025
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In the maelstrom of this fierce collision, the particles in the winds from the two stars collide, compress into clumps and ultimately cool, allowing carbon-rich dust just millionths of a meter in size to form.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
16 Jan. 2025
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Into this maelstrom steps O’Brien, whose comedic persona has never been particularly political.—
Ashraf Khalil,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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The West Facility started as the communicable disease facility, but has since mushroomed into a hodgepodge of ailing people, difficult to handle detainees and a number of dorm units that were recently expanded.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
20 Mar. 2025
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This isn’t about memorizing the job description—largely a meaningless hodgepodge of skills, qualifications and platitudes about work style and culture cribbed from past job descriptions and competitors’ postings.—
Michael B. Horn,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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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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What’s going on For months, Tesla has been struggling with a public relations morass due to Musk’s central role in the White House.—
Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Mar. 2025
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The manuals of government departments provide intricate guidelines and procedures, totaling an intimidating morass of rules—guidebooks that the bureaucracy can use to justify its actions, or lack thereof.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 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 16 Apr. 2025.
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