crazy quilt

noun

Definition of crazy quiltnext
as in medley
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 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 The roadway infrastructure that each class can use, however, remains a crazy quilt of local, state or national regulations. — IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2021 See All Example Sentences for crazy quilt
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crazy quilt
  1. medley
  2. variety
  3. assortment
  4. jumble
  5. collage
  6. patchwork quilt
  7. alphabet soup
Noun
  • Sequenced at the center of a three-track medley, its death-dream logic deliberately evokes the SMiLE era’s dark, confusing edge.
    — Ryan Meehan, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Transfer the vegetable medley to a 13-by-18-by-1-inch sheet pan.
    — Candy Hom, AJC.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of medley
Noun
  • People heading into the Affordable Care Act open enrollment period with plans to sign up for insurance should expect a variety of changes in 2027, including higher premiums and fewer coverage options.
    — Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Arugula is a leafy green that can be incorporated into a variety of dishes from breakfast and lunch to dinner.
    — Molly Allen, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of variety
Noun
  • Outside the building were an assortment of generators, cables and Starlink dishes.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026
  • That includes things like better marketing and potential resets to the product assortment.
    — Jeff Marks,Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of assortment
Noun
  • 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
  • Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.
    — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of jumble
Noun
  • Phil Dunn, an acrylic artist and collage artist, made several of the tables.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Pollard has also been immersed in surrealism and dada, fitting genres for a musician and visual artist who has a knack for bending words and images to his will — either via hallucinatory lyrics or collages that mesh realms both physical and meta.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of collage
Noun
  • However, compliance right now is a patchwork quilt of regulations across city, county, state level and even national standards.
    — Anthony Paganucci, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Together, the collections resembled a patchwork quilt of color.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of patchwork quilt
Noun
  • Line of Fire is not about any one of those agencies but the whole alphabet soup of them, as filtered through the experiences of a single flawed but loving family.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
  • This mom-and-pop image clashes with the reality that the independents, as they are known, are highly organized into an alphabet soup of newly influential lobbying groups — with Hildebrand a member of several.
    — Alex Cuadros, ProPublica, 16 June 2026
Definition of alphabet soup

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