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an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
an environmental issue that brought together a crazy quilt of people from all points on the political spectrum
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Recent Examples of crazy quilt
Spoonful, Woody Guthrie, and Eleanor Roosevelt – that just captured the whole crazy quilt of the Village arts and politics scene.
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Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
Woodcock’s solution is to go back to regulation; the government should renew the old restrictions on fares so consumers get clarity and fairness rather than today’s crazy quilt of dynamic pricing and extra fees.
—Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
My generational touchstones don’t form a cinematic canon as much as a crazy quilt of vibes, impulses, bat signals and dog whistles that — randomly, digressively, but somehow coherently — define the arc of a random, digressive, somehow coherent life.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
That leaves much of the regulatory responsibility to local governing bodies, with a resulting crazy quilt of rules.
—Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 1 June 2023
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Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2024
Woodcock’s solution is to go back to regulation; the government should renew the old restrictions on fares so consumers get clarity and fairness rather than today’s crazy quilt of dynamic pricing and extra fees.
—Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
My generational touchstones don’t form a cinematic canon as much as a crazy quilt of vibes, impulses, bat signals and dog whistles that — randomly, digressively, but somehow coherently — define the arc of a random, digressive, somehow coherent life.
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
That leaves much of the regulatory responsibility to local governing bodies, with a resulting crazy quilt of rules.
—Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 1 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for crazy quilt
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Maybe even playing the Super Bowl with a medley of her biggest hits from over the years?—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
15 Aug. 2025
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The group’s Daft Punk medley, which has been viewed 381 million times on YouTube, won them their first of three Grammy Awards.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
14 Aug. 2025
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This was flanked by day-one support from hardware companies, including Nvidia and AMD, and cloud providers, like Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, to ensure that the model ran smoothly on a variety of systems.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
14 Aug. 2025
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Google came back with a variety of domestic and international destinations that fit my description.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
14 Aug. 2025
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At the time, my wardrobe consisted mostly of neon backless shirts and tank tops, and an eclectic assortment of flip-flops, both formal and informal.—
Alisha Fernandez Miranda,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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The company, which has become known for its homey aesthetic and assortment of fruit spreads, herbal teas and baking mixes, shared a black-and-white photo of the duchess wearing a sun dress and wide-brimmed hat alongside its celebratory message.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
4 Aug. 2025
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In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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Instead, voters themselves are jumbles of competing and sometimes contradictory interests.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
14 Feb. 2025
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Hughes also created a collage of photos from his visit to the Walt Disney World golf course.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
13 Aug. 2025
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The two paintings, fusing collage and paint into layered, almost tactile compositions, add color and texture to the rarefied terrain of alpine luxury, where during winter skiers slice through snow drifts painted into presence.—
Skylar Mitchell,
Essence,
11 Aug. 2025
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As such, the shift to full encryption matters less to Apple than to Google, which is all in on RCS and even took control of the global rollout across its Android ecosystem, rather than rely on the patchwork quilt of mobile networks to run a slower process.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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Over the last seven days, my schedule has looked like a patchwork quilt, spanning several distinct sectors of the health care industry.—
Alexis Kayser,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
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Landecker, whose middle name really is Records, left WLS in 1981, going through an alphabet soup of radio stations, including stops in Toronto and Cleveland.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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That’s the best way to describe how the Boys in Blue have acted as the city emblazoned on their hats and road jerseys battles Donald Trump’s toxic alphabet soup of federal agencies that have conducted immigration sweeps across Los Angeles over the past two weeks.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2025
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