Thesaurus results for ALPHABET SOUP

alphabet soup

noun

Definition of alphabet soup

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 Staying up to date on the alphabet soup of laws like ERISA, the ACA, COBRA and HIPAA definitely requires some proactive monitoring of regulatory changes. — Beth Latchana, Forbes.com, 13 May 2026 The Nuggets’ alphabet soup TV playoff schedule is an ABCDEFU to fans. — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026 The alphabet soup of agencies that oversee transit planning for the Atlanta metro would change under a late-session move in the Senate to abolish the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority and the Atlanta-Region Transit Link Authority. — Sara Gregory, AJC.com, 26 Mar. 2026 Baseball is changing at a dizzying speed in 2026 with the arrival of robot umpires, the return home of the Tampa Bay Rays and an alphabet soup of networks televising games in perhaps the last season before a labor shutdown. — Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for alphabet soup

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Noun

Waiters walked around the room serving bowls of pasta with a medley of sauces.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
After an opening medley that spans New Orleans jazz and bounce, the record’s signposts grow increasingly fuzzy.

— Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of medley

Noun

Locals claimed that drinking it was helpful for a variety of respiratory and digestive problems.

— D. T. Max, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
That includes cards such as the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card (see rates and fees), which comes with a variety of excellent travel insurance benefits and the American Express® Gold Card, which is a rewarding option for dining and grocery purchases.

— Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of variety

Noun

Developed with creative chairman Reed Krakoff and design teams in New York and Bali, the assortment splices the siblings’ contrasting aesthetics with John Hardy’s longstanding tradition of handcraft.

— Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026
Now, a deeper look suggests a much broader assortment of material from the outside world — silica, metals, soot and other debris — is getting through.

— Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of assortment

Noun

Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.

— Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.

— Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026

Definition of jumble

Noun

So are three mural-sized collages that reflect his ongoing investigations into the legacies of colonialism.

— Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
The first gallery presents Krasner’s collage works from the mid 1950s, when Pollock was at an artistic impasse and spiraling out of control.

— John Yau, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of collage

Noun

One thing that Mamdani should do on property taxes is push to reform the crazy quilt and unfair system.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
There’s everything from 19th-century crazy quilts to vintage napkins, even a bag of stretchy strings.

— Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 6 June 2025

Definition of crazy quilt

Noun

Together, the collections resembled a patchwork quilt of color.

— Angela Haupt, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
That’s a prime example of the patchwork quilt of producers, platforms and distributors that drive content deals these days — and no two are the same, Fraser adds.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of patchwork quilt

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