bollixes

noun

plural of bollix
as in mishmashes

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  1. litters
  2. shuffles
  3. maelstroms
  4. hodgepodges
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  • The result is that the females—suddenly surrounded by, say, five litters of newborn pups—have no idea whose kids are whose.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 8 May 2026
  • Supporters argue the policy would help address the root of the problem by preventing unwanted litters and reducing the number of animals that end up back on the streets.
    — Nina Burns, CBS News, 5 May 2026
Definition of litters
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  • While spun as voluntary resignations, these sorts of shuffles typically indicate top brass — in this case, Netflix content chief Bela Bajaria — is looking to shake up its slates or thinks that fresh eyes are needed to guide programming.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 16 July 2026
  • Sellke, Shi, and Wang then showed that after a certain number of shuffles (which depended on how many cards were in the deck), the overlap between the decks’ regions of unmixed cards disappeared at an exponential rate.
    — John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 17 June 2026
Definition of shuffles
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  • This one’s closer to immersion therapy for phobias around motherhood, mental health, and emotional maelstroms that refuse to tamed or contained.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
Definition of maelstroms
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  • But storefronts across the city have long been weird hodgepodges, rife with misspellings and aesthetic incoherence.
    — Clio Chang, Curbed, 22 June 2026
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