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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
Most of your followers don't care about your alphabet soup.
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Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
An alphabet soup of left-wing social activist groups manned booths at Monday’s rally, including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Denver Communists and Colorado Indivisible.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2025
Troops and agents from an alphabet soup of different agencies have set up checkpoints on busy city arteries, injecting their authority into daily life.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
Landecker, whose middle name really is Records, left WLS in 1981, going through an alphabet soup of radio stations, including stops in Toronto and Cleveland.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
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Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
An alphabet soup of left-wing social activist groups manned booths at Monday’s rally, including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Denver Communists and Colorado Indivisible.
—John Aguilar, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2025
Troops and agents from an alphabet soup of different agencies have set up checkpoints on busy city arteries, injecting their authority into daily life.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
Landecker, whose middle name really is Records, left WLS in 1981, going through an alphabet soup of radio stations, including stops in Toronto and Cleveland.
—Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alphabet soup
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After applauding the win, Murphy didn’t stay to watch Hudson win her category (Best Supporting Actress) or to enjoy his costars’ medley of the film’s three Best Original Song nominees, resulting in speculation he was angered by his loss.—
Natalie Oganesyan,
Deadline,
3 Jan. 2026
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Here's where to base yourself while discovering Portugal's vast medley of landscapes.—
Deanna Romano,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 Jan. 2026
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Efforts in recent years have focused on recovering ancient grape varieties and highlighting the distinctive conditions of the islands.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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In every variety of ice, H2O molecules interact, with weak connections called hydrogen bonds forming between one oxygen and one hydrogen atom in separate molecules.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2026
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The Who’s Next trade show continued to spread its wings, leaning further into demand for broader assortments as retailers seek opportunities to up the lifestyle quotient in stores and cultivate a community vibe that brings consumers back time after time.—
Alex Wynne,
Footwear News,
26 Jan. 2026
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In states like Florida that have robust school-choice programs, funding is beginning to follow students to a much wider assortment of learning environments.—
Kerry McDonald,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The result also spotlights conference championships’ awkward fit in the current system, particularly given the fact that conference expansion has led to jumbles atop each league’s standings.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
7 Dec. 2025
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Ray’s most chaotic photograms—jumbles that push out of the frame or look like time bombs ready to explode—find echoes in his films, projected on the back walls, a show in themselves.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
3 Oct. 2025
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Those intensive collages implied, and even staged, his successive incarnations across six decades of musical self-reinvention.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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In practice, that meant something similar to his past records—fragments of human voices breaking through collages of tape loops and glitchy errata, warmed by colorful sequences of alien synth work.—
Colin Joyce,
Pitchfork,
28 Jan. 2026
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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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Who better to make a patchwork quilt than the retail queen of cottagecore itself?—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
26 Jan. 2026
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That means shutdowns are localized, and has resulted in a patchwork quilt of Starlink connectivity, including near blackouts in some high-profile areas.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Alphabet soup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alphabet%20soup. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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