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as in jumble
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
a scrapbook that was a clutter of snapshots, diary entries, letters, and newspaper clippings
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as in commotion
chiefly dialect
a state of noisy, confused activity
the clutter created by the exhibitors setting up for the annual state fair
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as in to burden
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as in to disarray
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Recent Examples of clutter
Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
This streamlined architecture reduces cable clutter, improves reliability by minimizing potential failure points, lowers overall weight, and simplifies maintenance and troubleshooting.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
William Jones, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
Some modern cars have giant screens with minimal information, while others clutter their UI with decorative imagery.
—Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 12 Mar. 2026
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Noun
The Aries Moon adds speed to communication, so avoid turning urgency into clutter.
—Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
This streamlined architecture reduces cable clutter, improves reliability by minimizing potential failure points, lowers overall weight, and simplifies maintenance and troubleshooting.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 9 June 2026
Verb
There are so many new technological tools and methods of communication, and yet so many of these serve to clutter and obfuscate rather than actually assist.
—William Jones, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2026
Some modern cars have giant screens with minimal information, while others clutter their UI with decorative imagery.
—Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 12 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for clutter
Noun
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Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.—
Madison Chapman,
Outside,
25 Mar. 2026
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Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.—
Lynda Balslev,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Fyy Travel Cable Organizer Pouch Holiday travel comes with enough commotion, and tangled chargers don’t need to be part of it.—
Chaise Sanders,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Dec. 2025
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Neighbors on 21st Street also heard the commotion and said people were banging on their doors to get out.—
Alexandra Simon,
CBS News,
9 Dec. 2025
Verb
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This is an explosive combination in communities like Ursula’s that are burdened with petrochemical infrastructure, and along the thousands of miles of chemical transportation routes.—
Cynthia Palmer,
Time,
9 Dec. 2025
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The disease not only substantially burdens the individual, but also their family, their community and society as a whole.—
Andrea Kane,
CNN Money,
9 Dec. 2025
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The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
6 Dec. 2024
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Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.—
Yasmine Salam,
NBC News,
2 Dec. 2023
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That leaves a lot of room for a variety of outcomes, depending on how the additional 12 Republicans vote.—
Marissa Meador,
IndyStar,
12 Dec. 2025
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Swift covered a variety of topics while speaking with Colbert, from her Kansas City Chiefs star fiancé Travis Kelce being the love of her life to getting her masters back.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
12 Dec. 2025
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Those supporters were left unchallenged by stewards, despite FIFA winning a court hearing enabling them to lawfully prohibit people showing the lion-and-sun flags on the grounds of them carrying a political message and potentially causing disturbances.—
Henry Bushnell,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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The coordinated attack left one local police officer, who was responding to a disturbance call at the detention center, shot in the neck.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
15 June 2026
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Lizzo’s assistant is piling suitcases in the entryway of the musician’s home in Los Angeles when suddenly her boss reassigns her to a more pressing task.—
Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
10 June 2026
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Investors have piled into robotics startups in recent times as attention turns to deploying AI in physical systems that can interact in real-world environments.—
Kai Nicol-Schwarz,
CNBC,
10 June 2026
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Mixing too many competing scents in the same area also muddles the experience, and strong essential oils like peppermint or cinnamon can quickly overload a space.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Miami Herald,
10 June 2026
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This muddled the entire process.—
Tony East,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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“Clutter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/clutter. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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