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Noun
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The post-Shah state was a mishmash of neckties and turbans, with Bazargan as Prime Minister and Khomeini hovering somewhere above.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025 -
The Tangerine Moose serves decadent ice-cream floats and peddles an eclectic mishmash of artisan goods in their gift shop.—
Katherine Polcari,
Southern Living,
2 Aug. 2025
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For example, the nuance of human locomotion sometimes gets lost in the generative shuffle, producing people who appear to walk backward.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
5 Aug. 2025
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Earlier this month, Broadnax proposed a $6.3 billion austerity budget that calls for a shuffle of police and firefighter staffing, a drawdown of money to help build affordable housing and the use of $14.1 million in reserves to offset limited property tax revenue.—
Ella McCarthy,
Austin American Statesman,
31 July 2025
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At its core, a cheat sheet is less about telling you where to dive and more about reducing mental clutter.—
Matt Pyzdrowski,
New York Times,
13 Aug. 2025
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Also tidy up the space to remove any countertop clutter that could be making your home look unorganized.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
12 Aug. 2025
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What followed was a maelstrom: insurgency, sectarian bloodshed, and the birth of ISIS.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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Yes, Hayden Birdsong is caught in a developmental maelstrom right now, and Kyle Harrison is currently on the Pawtucket Red Sox, but Landen Roupp has been stellar.—
Grant Brisbee,
New York Times,
25 July 2025
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The guard played off the ball with the Sun, then back-up one with the Lynx and a hodgepodge of the two positions in Chicago.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Aug. 2025
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But too much funny business is given to the likes of Bad Bunny, Travis Kelce, and a hodgepodge of modern and legendary golfers (John Daly is the lone standout).—
Jesse David Fox,
Vulture,
30 July 2025
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Ashmole also tried his hand at poetry, and the miscellany even contains a few of his pieces.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Mar. 2025
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The long-standing curse of the new-music concert is a tendency toward miscellany.—
Alex Ross,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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That failure is symbolized most starkly in the mute dissolution of his own group, formed to help save Chicago from its pension morass but which instead silently acquiesced in making that threat markedly worse.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Aug. 2025
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The complexities of the issues and the broad array of competing stakeholders, along with lawsuits which often delay progress for years at a time, all combine to create a permitting morass which is extremely hard to untangle.—
David Blackmon,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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Her goal is to start a women’s consciousness-raising group, and her efforts have brought together a motley, inquisitive quintet.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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Kaan kaan wu, with its motley of melds, is where these two tiles from different suits can be used in a clean-sweeping hand.—
Rudy Lee,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2023
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“Bollix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bollix. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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