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Noun
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The result was a mishmash of defense pairings.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
7 May 2026 -
Denver was left, after a regular-season stretch run and a berth in the AFC Championship Game, with a mishmash of running backs with noteable holes in their skill sets.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2026
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The Dodgers hit the shuffle button on their playlist of popular jams, and the hits flowed on Tuesday night with a whole new tempo.—
Doug Padilla,
Oc Register,
27 May 2026
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My experience is that customers get lost in the shuffle of larger organizations.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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Once a home is cleaned out, the person with hoarding disorder should have regular check-ins with friends, family or case workers to keep the clutter from re-accumulating.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
28 May 2026
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The city has cited the church for issues including unsanitary conditions, improper storage, and clutter on the property.—
Hannah McIlree,
CBS News,
28 May 2026
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This light has a very specific wavelength, or color, but the JWST observations showed a minuscule shift in this color from one end of the maelstrom to the other because of the hydrogen’s motion.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
27 May 2026
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In 2022, the Indonesian artist collective Taring Padi was thrust into a political maelstrom when their banner People’s Justice (2002), on view in an already fraught Documenta 15, was covered by Kassel officials and later dismantled.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
12 May 2026
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And this intense vetting makes for a hodgepodge of talent from all walks of life.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
19 May 2026
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His account racked up scores of bids totaling tens of thousands of dollars for a hodgepodge of items.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
7 May 2026
Noun
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What began as a miscellany of Welsh, Cornish, and other folktales about a questionably historical Romano-British leader cohered into legend largely as a function of cultural exchange.—
Nat Segnit,
Harpers Magazine,
21 Apr. 2026
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At the same time, conversations and pending miscellanies are becoming more important.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The massive language model is a morass of words connecting to other words.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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These elements and more could help move the needle on the nation’s housing morass.—
Alex Schwartz,
The Conversation,
29 May 2026
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The Giants’ motley run matches the 1937-55 St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles (also in left field) for the longest streak in major-league history featuring a different player at the same position on Opening Day.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
24 Mar. 2026
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The neutral design appeals to people of all genders and with a motley of styles.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Dec. 2025
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“Bollix.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bollix. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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