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consisting of many things of different sorts
  • the museum's eclectic collection has everything from a giraffe skeleton to medieval musical instruments

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“Eclectic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eclectic. Accessed 23 Oct. 2021.

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