mixed bag
noun
1
: a miscellaneous collection : assortment
2
: one having both positive and negative qualities or aspects
His performance was a mixed bag.
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His performance was a mixed bag.
a mixed bag of professional astronomers and amateur enthusiasts attended the conference
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Harden has a mixed bag of brilliance and failing colossally short over his 17 career playoff runs (33 series).
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Joe Vardon, New York Times, 10 May 2026
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The taller, more powerful spacecraft features SpaceX's new Raptor 3 engine design, and is expected to bring improvements over a mixed bag of launch test successes and failures last year.
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Manager Warren Schaeffer saw a mixed bag from Lorenzen.
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Joe Vardon, New York Times, 10 May 2026
Pop Crave shared the announcement on their X account and the comments section featured a mixed bag of reactions.
—Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 9 May 2026
The taller, more powerful spacecraft features SpaceX's new Raptor 3 engine design, and is expected to bring improvements over a mixed bag of launch test successes and failures last year.
—Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 8 May 2026
Manager Warren Schaeffer saw a mixed bag from Lorenzen.
—Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 7 May 2026
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“Mixed bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mixed%20bag. Accessed 13 May. 2026.
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