bollix

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Noun
  • Inside, the main floor has been commandeered by a mishmash of cash-only Asian food stalls, which gives it the feel of a makeshift street market.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 10 Dec. 2025
  • But to support new, massively heavier modern towers, engineers needed to drill dozens, even hundreds of augered cast-in-place (ACIP) piles – essentially, oversized columns to transfer the weight of a building through the mishmash of sand, silt and peat into deeper, more solid layers.
    Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 1 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Get live security wait times, so you’re not stuck in a five‑hour shuffle line that’s already happening.
    The Kim Komando Show, FOXNews.com, 8 Nov. 2025
  • The shuffle of betting partners comes as the NBA, a rights partner with Disney and ESPN, is dealing with a gambling scandal involving multiple players and coaches.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • As Spring told Fortune, Macy’s recent success—including its best quarter for sales growth in three years—is thanks to a playbook focused on less store clutter, a more focused assortment of products and brands, and more staffing in key departments such as women’s shoes and dresses.
    Phil Wahba, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Minimize clutter in your garage, attic, basement, and other areas where stink bugs may take up shelter.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 6 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This one’s closer to immersion therapy for phobias around motherhood, mental health, and emotional maelstroms that refuse to tamed or contained.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Former Ray County Sheriff Scott Childers, whose tenure was dogged by a maelstrom of misconduct allegations that led to his resignation, appeared in federal court in downtown Kansas City on civil rights violation charges on Wednesday.
    Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The push and pull of the front also means a hodgepodge of temperatures, with most places from Pittsburgh to the north seeing highs in the upper 40s and places south of Pittsburgh seeing highs in the low 50s.
    Ron Smiley, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Steinway Street is the home of New York’s Little Egypt and also hosts a hodgepodge of cultures.
    Ramishah Maruf, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 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 Toronto Raptors, stuck in the morass of teams fighting for playoff/Play-In Tournament seeding, would surely rather finish higher rather than lower.
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • But uneven enforcement and a growing list of exceptions have created a regulatory morass that is stifling the continent’s transformation.
    Eric Schmidt, Time, 11 Dec. 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 9 Jan. 2026.

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