bollix

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bollix
Noun
  • The Republic's review showed the end result was a mishmash of PDF files that looked different, making data extraction difficult.
    Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • My personal collection of recipes is a mishmash of digital files, handwritten notes and computer printouts.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Thomas’ double usually gets lost in the shuffle, thanks to Noel’s heroics, or David Fry’s walk-off, or even Thomas’ two seismic swings in the ALDS.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • In the first quarter, the Cowboys led 7-0 and were moving the ball on their second drive, when defensive lineman Cruz Marsella got into the backfield, intercepted a short shuffle pass and returned it for a 50-yard touchdown to tie the score for the Sailors.
    Lou Ponsi, Oc Register, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Picture yourself in a rocking chair on your wraparound porch, French doors wide open, and no clutter in sight.
    Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
  • One screen, less clutter, and a smarter deal all around.
    Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Anyier Anei is Ada, a newbie model from South Sudan by way of Kenya, wide-eyed and hungry as she’s tossed into a maelstrom of haughty men and clubgoing sisters in strutting.
    Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The political maelstrom caught the attention of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who capitalized on the drama over the cellphone legislation to make a pitch for his independent campaign to be Michigan's next governor.
    Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While the homage is heartfelt, and certainly packs its share of genuine laughs, the end result can’t escape feeling like a hodgepodge, incapable of cohesively blending the satirical elements with the earnest messaging foremost on its mind.
    Michael Rechtshaffen, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The collective nightmare of a nuclear meltdown with all its accompanying horrors: leukemia and a hodgepodge of other cancers, disfigurement, mutation, displacement, forced evacuation, death of people and animals and land and hope.
    Rabih Alameddine September 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • An array of expensive miscellany—a James Turrell work of pink L.E.D. panels, a Magritte, a Banksy, a few Warhols, a couple of Damien Hirsts—went under the hammer in Diriyah, the country’s ancient capital.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Ashmole also tried his hand at poetry, and the miscellany even contains a few of his pieces.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Weimar Republic’s financial and regulatory morass made strongman rule attractive.
    Tanner H. Jones, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • These familiar, turbulent morasses of swirling droplets continue to stymie scientists.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 18 Sep. 2025.

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