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Much of the group’s cosmology derives from The Urantia Book, a mishmash of Christianity, metaphysics, and esoteric spirituality, that was purportedly written by celestial beings and published anonymously in 1955.—
Jane Borden,
Rolling Stone,
5 Feb. 2026 -
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
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Friday’s move came with another roster shuffle.—
C.J. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
27 Feb. 2026
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At first, the fossil fragments were misidentified and then lost to the shuffle of international museum collections.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Feb. 2026
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Remove personal items, bold wall colors, and excess clutter so buyers can picture themselves in the space.—
Sheila Kim,
The Spruce,
27 Feb. 2026
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Below, three professional organizers share their top strategies for eliminating clutter.—
Caroline Lubinsky,
Martha Stewart,
27 Feb. 2026
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Its wide main first-floor aisle, a maelstrom on weekends, stretches 391 feet from one end to the other.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
23 Feb. 2026
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Brief breaks in the maelstrom gave way to heavy snow blown sideways by gusting winds.—
Caelyn Pender,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Jake Allen The Indiana Senate approved a nearly 700-page bill containing a hodgepodge of language taken from other bills at risk of dying, including a controversial provision that could encourage more local communities to approve data center projects.—
Kaitlin Lange,
IndyStar,
25 Feb. 2026
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All State of the Union addresses are a hodgepodge of a president’s preferred talking points, but that lack of cohesion was especially on display Tuesday evening.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
25 Feb. 2026
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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
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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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Or, perhaps even more likely, Iran devolves into a morass, a chaotic power struggle that destabilizes the entire powder keg of a region.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Mar. 2026
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Texas public education is in a morass.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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The neutral design appeals to people of all genders and with a motley of styles.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Dec. 2025
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This week’s foe, Tennessee, is almost as motley.—
Kevin Cusick,
Twin Cities,
25 Dec. 2025
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“Bollix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bollix. Accessed 3 Mar. 2026.
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