as in medley
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
drew his artistic inspiration from the city's rich gumbo of musical styles
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Recent Examples of gumbo
The ham is $95 and add-on options include sausage and chicken gumbo, seafood gumbo, red beans and potato salad.
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Molly Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Dec. 2025
Doeuk tried her hand at making gumbo and jambalaya, and received positive feedback.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 6 Dec. 2025
My favorite remains the choose two combination where a straightforward ham and brie sandwich and a bowl of gumbo goes a long way.
—Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2025
The following morning, Guy was heading out the door to buy gumbo ingredients when his wife told him there was a call from Vaughan’s people: The guitarist had been killed when his helicopter crashed into a ski slope.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2025
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Molly Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Dec. 2025
Doeuk tried her hand at making gumbo and jambalaya, and received positive feedback.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 6 Dec. 2025
My favorite remains the choose two combination where a straightforward ham and brie sandwich and a bowl of gumbo goes a long way.
—Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 5 Dec. 2025
The following morning, Guy was heading out the door to buy gumbo ingredients when his wife told him there was a call from Vaughan’s people: The guitarist had been killed when his helicopter crashed into a ski slope.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 30 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gumbo
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Like last year, all eight nominees in the Best New Artist category will collaborate on a medley.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
1 Feb. 2026
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This year’s nominees for best new artist—Olivia Dean, Katseye, the Marías, Addison Rae, Sombr, Leon Thomas, Alex Warren, and Lola Young—will all be performing a medley, continuing a beloved tradition that began last year.—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
1 Feb. 2026
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First found in the 1930s, this interpretation was later validated by a wide variety of laboratory experiments.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
30 Jan. 2026
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The menu has shifted to more small plates and skewers, with meats like chicken, shrimp, fish and wagyu beef and a variety of different vegetables.—
Connie Ogle,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2026
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The result also spotlights conference championships’ awkward fit in the current system, particularly given the fact that conference expansion has led to jumbles atop each league’s standings.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
7 Dec. 2025
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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
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The Who’s Next trade show continued to spread its wings, leaning further into demand for broader assortments as retailers seek opportunities to up the lifestyle quotient in stores and cultivate a community vibe that brings consumers back time after time.—
Alex Wynne,
Footwear News,
26 Jan. 2026
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In states like Florida that have robust school-choice programs, funding is beginning to follow students to a much wider assortment of learning environments.—
Kerry McDonald,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Those intensive collages implied, and even staged, his successive incarnations across six decades of musical self-reinvention.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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In practice, that meant something similar to his past records—fragments of human voices breaking through collages of tape loops and glitchy errata, warmed by colorful sequences of alien synth work.—
Colin Joyce,
Pitchfork,
28 Jan. 2026
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That said, international filmmaking is in feeble shape, partly because of the jambalaya of international co-productions, partly because of the inroads of television aesthetics, and partly because of the cloistered aestheticism of self-conscious art-house cinema.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2026
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During a Tuesday morning appearance on The View, the 30-year-old — who starred in the 2023 Hunger Games film The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes — revealed that an incident involving chicken jambalaya almost killed him in the Louisiana city.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
13 Jan. 2026
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Fewer shoppers are coming in with the colder weather, but those who venture to the market are buying more meat and vegetables to make soups and stews.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
30 Jan. 2026
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Chicken stew was below proper holding temperature.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
January 30,
Sacbee.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The fireside brunch at the hotel’s Glitretind Restaurant is a must-have meal; wooden trestle tables are heaped with pastries, salads, crepes, cheeses, eggs, and smoked fish (and the requisite carving table), evoking the chalet-chic of Lech, Austria.—
Amy Tara Koch,
Robb Report,
29 Jan. 2026
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Poured into a cup rather than drizzled onto a salad, this simple combo has been touted as a small but mighty nighttime ritual that supports everything from glowing skin to smoother digestion.—
Beatrice Zocchi,
Vogue,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Gumbo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gumbo. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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