alphabet soup

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Recent Examples of alphabet soup My journey required no specialists, no injections, no alphabet soup of assisted reproductive acronyms. Anonymous, Vogue, 10 May 2025 Recycling can feel like alphabet soup: PET, PETE, and HDPE can be picked up through most curbside recycling programs and recycled into various products, like furniture, lumber, and bottles. Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2025 The key is for business leaders to look beyond the buzzwords and the alphabet soup of model types to realize the use cases of AI. Toni Pisano, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025 Coming to the United States for anything but tourism usually means wading through an alphabet soup of visa types – more than two dozen for people who do not intend to become permanent residents of the US. Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for alphabet soup
Recent Examples of Synonyms for alphabet soup
Noun
  • The stew usually has a tomato-and-barbecue-sauce base and includes a medley of vegetables and potatoes.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 July 2025
  • So, Katz was, and continues to be, ahead of her time, offering a medley of individualized laser services (something that is still somewhat rare in combination) at a price that makes these often astronomical treatments relatively accessible.
    Nora Zelevansky, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The products have been sold at a variety of retailers, including Walmart, Target, Costco and Amazon.
    Melina Khan, AZCentral.com, 22 July 2025
  • Over 70 artists will show a variety of fine art, ranging from glass to garden art, wood sculpting to jewelry, and paintings to photography.
    Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • To attract a wider assortment of bird species, plant both evergreen and deciduous trees.
    Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2025
  • Time is running out, so here’s a fresh assortment of markdowns to choose from.
    Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Instead, voters themselves are jumbles of competing and sometimes contradictory interests.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The exhibit features over 60 experimental works on paper, collage and mixed media from the 1940s to early 2000s, as well as pieces inspired by the Caribbean and Hamptons landscapes that informed the abstract expressionist painter’s brilliant brushwork.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 26 June 2025
  • Other images in the issue include a white shell-like tray with gold interiors that holds an array of pearls with a bottle of Chanel No. 5 and a colored seashell, and a collage of lion prints, which is a subtle hint to the founder’s zodiac sign.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • There’s everything from 19th-century crazy quilts to vintage napkins, even a bag of stretchy strings.
    Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 6 June 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • And even better, the green patchwork quilt of the Scottish countryside stretched out below, as the plane drifted down from the clouds.
    Nathan Tavares, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2025
  • The cutouts made the shorter fence look like a patchwork quilt.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 26 May 2025

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“Alphabet soup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alphabet%20soup. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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