as in medley
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
the alphabet soup of designer drugs that were available to patrons of the once-notorious disco
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Recent Examples of alphabet soup
During this PowerPoint-like alphabet soup, Adelman offered a new wrinkle about the offense.
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Troy Renck, Denver Post, 28 May 2025
This has been a common question from NASCAR fans for years, given the alphabet soup of networks where the sport’s top series air: FOX Sports, NBC, TNT, USA, The CW, FS1 and so on.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2025
Over the past eight decades, the United Nations has expanded to encompass an alphabet soup of humanitarian agencies and subsidiary organs with colossal, overlapping ambitions, supported by layers and layers of middle managers.
—Amanda Chicago Lewis, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
The potential investment in TKO follows a Saudi Arabian effort in June to create a multibillion-dollar boxing league that would aim to unite the world’s best boxers, who for decades have been divided by rival promoters and fighting for titles controlled by an alphabet soup of sanctioning bodies.
—Tariq Panja, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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Troy Renck, Denver Post, 28 May 2025
This has been a common question from NASCAR fans for years, given the alphabet soup of networks where the sport’s top series air: FOX Sports, NBC, TNT, USA, The CW, FS1 and so on.
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2025
Over the past eight decades, the United Nations has expanded to encompass an alphabet soup of humanitarian agencies and subsidiary organs with colossal, overlapping ambitions, supported by layers and layers of middle managers.
—Amanda Chicago Lewis, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
The potential investment in TKO follows a Saudi Arabian effort in June to create a multibillion-dollar boxing league that would aim to unite the world’s best boxers, who for decades have been divided by rival promoters and fighting for titles controlled by an alphabet soup of sanctioning bodies.
—Tariq Panja, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alphabet soup
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Bettencourt performed with Osbourne at the show, and his band Extreme honored him with a medley of his hits at a concert in Zürich last month.—
Daniela Avila,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Busta Rhymes also took the stage for a medley of his songs before he was honored with the Rock the Bells Visionary Award.—
Daysia Tolentino,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Sep. 2025
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Eating a wide variety of nutrient-rich foods helps maintain a balanced gut microbiome.—
Abby Norman,
Verywell Health,
9 Sep. 2025
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Forbes publishes a variety of rankings, including the best employers and the richest people.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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An assortment of beautiful jars and candies and macaroons and other sweets with cute baskets and take-away gifts was the way to go.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Alessandro Michele debuted Valentino’s resort 2026 collection as an assortment of dreamscape portraits featuring models playing guitar, applying makeup or asleep in bed.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
5 Sep. 2025
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In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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Baker also leads the orchestra, which sounds grand — although the sound in the arts center’s Pugh Theater often left musicians, lead singers and chorus all at the same level, with actors speaking over all of it at the same time to create a sonic jumble.—
Matthew J. Palm,
Orlando Sentinel,
27 Feb. 2025
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At first glance, Walden’s paintings of craftsmanship, collage, and kinship evoke the work of the filmmaker Barbara Hammer.—
Grace Byron,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Wu hasn’t worked with his source material in a literal way; rather, Rauschenberg’s collages have informed his approach to the collection, which is built around classic American style.—
Vogue Runway,
Vogue,
4 Sep. 2025
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There’s everything from 19th-century crazy quilts to vintage napkins, even a bag of stretchy strings.—
Hannah Martin,
Architectural Digest,
6 June 2025
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Without saying so explicitly, Gottlieb nailed the biggest challenge that the L.A. teams, and probably all four of the West Coast additions to the Big Ten, have faced all season, a crazy quilt schedule and insane travel.—
Jim Alexander,
Orange County Register,
2 Mar. 2025
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As such, the shift to full encryption matters less to Apple than to Google, which is all in on RCS and even took control of the global rollout across its Android ecosystem, rather than rely on the patchwork quilt of mobile networks to run a slower process.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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Over the last seven days, my schedule has looked like a patchwork quilt, spanning several distinct sectors of the health care industry.—
Alexis Kayser,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
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“Alphabet soup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alphabet%20soup. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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