as in varieties
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 gumbos
Unlike many Cajun restaurants with good platters but weak gumbos and sides, Cocodrie’s excels at everything.
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Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Oct. 2025
On the flip side, this thickening agent is put to good use in dishes like gumbos, stews, and curries.
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Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
23 Sep. 2025
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
6 Oct. 2025
On the flip side, this thickening agent is put to good use in dishes like gumbos, stews, and curries.
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Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
23 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gumbos
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The wines nod to both Rhône and Bordeaux varieties grown across three estate vineyards in the Rocks District and Yakima Valley, with room for quirks such as Picpoul and the Portuguese Tinta Cão that grow almost nowhere else in the country.
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The bakery will offer more than 150 varieties of breads, pastries and desserts.
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Where assortments were once strongly driven by trends, today the starting point is the customer.
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The assortments give shoppers a chance to try several scent profiles without committing to one full-size luxury bottle.
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Lowlights included uninspiring medleys.
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For the elder millennials, the bittersweet spot was the medleys of older Kanye cuts released from 2004 to 2016 (think The College Dropout to The Life of Pablo).
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Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.
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Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.
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New designs are layered on top of old, creating accidental collages between eras.
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Hockney’s paintings and drawings, as well as his later photo collages and digital works, invariably had a playful, exploratory, interrogative relationship with perspective, light, scale, framing, rendering—the basic components of picture-making.
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While most jambalayas are made with rice cooked with ham, sausage, chicken, shrimp, or oysters and seasoned with herbs, some recipes call for tomatoes or celery, while others do not.
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“Gumbos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gumbos. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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