bollix

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Noun
  • Boxing scenes in movies, other than in a handful of classics, tend to start to look all the same, a mishmash of beads of sweat and blood and jowels distended, all fists flying and battering as two men catapult and careen across the ring.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Piccioli sent out a mishmash of styles from all over a fashion map that seems to have been drawn five or six years ago (oversize sneakers, faux couture gestures like capes and feathers and blah sportswear).
    Rachel Tashjian, CNN Money, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Perhaps it was lost in the Christmastime shuffle, or in the torrent of other deals and investments that have been flowing from the world’s most valuable company over the past year.
    Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Beeks, meanwhile, will also join his sixth team (Red Sox, Rays, Rockies, Pirates, Diamondbacks), and will essentially replace Coulombe in the Rangers’ offseason bullpen shuffle.
    Jayson Stark, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Failure to follow waste rules leads to clutter, penalties, or neighborhood frustration.
    Daniel Fusch, AZCentral.com, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Take steps daily to maintain a clutter-free home.
    Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In the maelstrom of modern war, presumed certainties crumble like piecrust.
    George F. Will, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Or the sight of an evil Jerry robot, puppeted by the consciousness of a tyrannical butterfly (Dave Franco), scampering, insect-like, around the fiery maelstrom of a rally gone awry.
    Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 5 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • True to potluck form, the rest was a thrilling hodgepodge.
    Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Twenty people died because NYC spends hundreds of millions of dollars on a hodgepodge of services with no one accountable.
    Barbara A. Blair, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • An array of expensive miscellany—a James Turrell work of pink L.E.D. panels, a Magritte, a Banksy, a few Warhols, a couple of Damien Hirsts—went under the hammer in Diriyah, the country’s ancient capital.
    Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Ashmole also tried his hand at poetry, and the miscellany even contains a few of his pieces.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • When their news anchor (Peter Finch) has a nervous breakdown on the air, suddenly their ratings turn around, bringing on a moral morass only some of them are prepared to face.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
  • And that concludes our journey through the morass.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The neutral design appeals to people of all genders and with a motley of styles.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 29 Dec. 2025
  • This week’s foe, Tennessee, is almost as motley.
    Kevin Cusick, Twin Cities, 25 Dec. 2025
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“Bollix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bollix. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.

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