Congress has proposed a grab bag of tax cuts.
the festival featured a grab bag of independent films from widely disparate genres
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1855
agglomerate, agglomeration, assortment, clutter, collage, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, jumble, litter, medley, mélange, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, motley, muddle, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, patchwork, potpourri, ragbag, rummage, salmagundi, scramble, shuffle, smorgasbord, tumble, variety, welter;
notions, oddments, odds and ends, sundries;
admixture, alloy, amalgam, blend, combination, commixture, composite, compound, fusion, intermixture, mix-up;
: a bag that holds many small gifts and that you reach into in order to pull one out without knowing what it is
: a group or mixture of different things
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