crazy quilt

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Recent Examples of crazy quilt The paintings of Mickalene Thomas are big, bold, gaudy, and beautiful, embedded with rhinestones, daubed with phosphorescent color, and composed like crazy quilts. Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2025 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 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
  • Here, she's seen performing on her variety show, which featured a number of famous guests and her own musical medleys.
    Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • These launch providers are racing a medley of Chinese rocket builders to become the second company to land and reuse a first stage booster.
    Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Mafbeanl Rocket Launcher for Kids Future NASA engineers and rocket scientists can explore a variety of STEM concepts in this engaging activity kit.
    Anja Webb, Parents, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Once connected, Spotify can be used in a variety of contexts.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The storage fee is based on the size of the product, the number of cubic feet the seller’s assortment requires and the time those products spend in an Amazon warehouse.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Broadview, Illinois — About a dozen protesters remain after clashes with an assortment of law enforcement agencies came to a head outside the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility near Chicago.
    Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ray’s most chaotic photograms—jumbles that push out of the frame or look like time bombs ready to explode—find echoes in his films, projected on the back walls, a show in themselves.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • In a collage, Beyoncé gave fans a closer look inside the birthday bash, showcasing the decor as well as snapshots of attendees and performers like Stevie Wonder.
    Caché McClay, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The Aquitaine countryside unfolds in a collage of khaki, tan, and green, dotted with little ponds and copses of trees.
    Anna Gaca, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There’s this North Star patchwork quilt that blends soothing fall colors and looks great in any season.
    Christopher Murray may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Its steep, meandering streets form a patchwork quilt filled with artists, spiritual seekers, motorcyclists, weekend wanderers, and retirees, each adding their own thread to the fabric.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Most of your followers don't care about your alphabet soup.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • An alphabet soup of left-wing social activist groups manned booths at Monday’s rally, including the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Denver Communists and Colorado Indivisible.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2025

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