grab bag

noun

: a receptacle (such as a bag) containing small articles which are to be drawn (as at a party or fair) without being seen

: a miscellaneous collection : potpourri

Example Sentences

Congress has proposed a grab bag of tax cuts. the festival featured a grab bag of independent films from widely disparate genres

Recent Examples on the Web Though negotiators by now had hoped to see a draft of the COP27 cover decision - setting clear goals for the meeting and resolving its thorniest debates - the document was more of a grab bag, listing almost every proposal countries have offered in recent days. —

Sarah Kaplan, Evan Halper And Timothy Puko, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Nov. 2022 This is largely due to lyrics that are equal parts raunch, taunt and punchline — a postmodern grab bag of references to basketball, pro wrestling, childhood nostalgia and the type of illicit gains made by pilfering credit card numbers off the dark Web. —

Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2023 The grab bag of training tools is great. —

Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2022 So here are a grab bag of lessons. —

Ryan Cooper, The Week, 10 Feb. 2022 Temu sells a grab bag of low-cost products that are sometimes practical and sometimes bizarre. —

Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023 The seven dancers, costumed in mostly dull, arbitrary layers of garments, perform a grab bag of isolated dance steps and clustered moves, some with awkward acrobatic maneuvering of would-be eye-catching but essentially miscellaneous purpose. —

Robert Greskovic, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022 Tesla’s latest recall is sweeping, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration saying the Full Self-Driving software can break local traffic laws and act in a way the driver doesn’t expect in a grab bag of road situations. —

WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023 Yet, the political power of opposition to the critical race theory — which became a grab bag for conservative complaints about the teaching of American history and racial inequality — largely petered out by last year’s midterm general elections. —

Trip Gabriel, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2023 See More

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