crazy quilt

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for crazy quilt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crazy quilt
Noun
  • The stew usually has a tomato-and-barbecue-sauce base and includes a medley of vegetables and potatoes.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 1 July 2025
  • So, Katz was, and continues to be, ahead of her time, offering a medley of individualized laser services (something that is still somewhat rare in combination) at a price that makes these often astronomical treatments relatively accessible.
    Nora Zelevansky, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • The products have been sold at a variety of retailers, including Walmart, Target, Costco and Amazon.
    Melina Khan, AZCentral.com, 22 July 2025
  • Over 70 artists will show a variety of fine art, ranging from glass to garden art, wood sculpting to jewelry, and paintings to photography.
    Elaine Rewolinski, jsonline.com, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • To attract a wider assortment of bird species, plant both evergreen and deciduous trees.
    Luke Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2025
  • Time is running out, so here’s a fresh assortment of markdowns to choose from.
    Kristina Rutkowski, Vogue, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Instead, voters themselves are jumbles of competing and sometimes contradictory interests.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The exhibit features over 60 experimental works on paper, collage and mixed media from the 1940s to early 2000s, as well as pieces inspired by the Caribbean and Hamptons landscapes that informed the abstract expressionist painter’s brilliant brushwork.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 26 June 2025
  • Other images in the issue include a white shell-like tray with gold interiors that holds an array of pearls with a bottle of Chanel No. 5 and a colored seashell, and a collage of lion prints, which is a subtle hint to the founder’s zodiac sign.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • And even better, the green patchwork quilt of the Scottish countryside stretched out below, as the plane drifted down from the clouds.
    Nathan Tavares, Travel + Leisure, 2 June 2025
  • The cutouts made the shorter fence look like a patchwork quilt.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 26 May 2025
Noun
  • This has been a common question from NASCAR fans for years, given the alphabet soup of networks where the sport’s top series air: FOX Sports, NBC, TNT, USA, The CW, FS1 and so on.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 21 May 2025
  • The potential investment in TKO follows a Saudi Arabian effort in June to create a multibillion-dollar boxing league that would aim to unite the world’s best boxers, who for decades have been divided by rival promoters and fighting for titles controlled by an alphabet soup of sanctioning bodies.
    Tariq Panja, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025

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