as in varieties
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
Sunday supper was a hotchpotch of leftovers
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Noun
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At a typical weekend festival, owner Sal Graci offers four roll varieties (and a couple of lemonades).—
USA TODAY Network,
USA Today,
19 June 2026 -
Most iris varieties flower from late spring to early summer, bringing pops of color to garden spaces and flower vases.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
18 June 2026
Noun
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Where assortments were once strongly driven by trends, today the starting point is the customer.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
23 June 2026
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The assortments give shoppers a chance to try several scent profiles without committing to one full-size luxury bottle.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2026
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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
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Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.—
Lynda Balslev,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Lowlights included uninspiring medleys.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
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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).—
Adelle Platon,
VIBE.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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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.—
Mark Rozzo,
Vanity Fair,
12 June 2026
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In the 1980s, Hockney would embrace Polaroid collages and would later use an iPad to create a series of digital paintings.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
12 June 2026
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“Hotchpotches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hotchpotches. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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