as in variety
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
a quirky secondhand bookstore with a macédoine of out-of-print titles
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His acting style had an influence on a variety of actors, including Martin Sheen, who’s been vocal about Dean’s impact on his career.—
Skyler Trepel,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025 -
Having people with a variety of backgrounds work together on a project ups the likelihood that our interpretations are accurate.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
28 Oct. 2025
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To open the big anniversary show, McEntire performed a decade-spanning medley, saluting one Song of the Year winner from each of the past six decades.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
21 Oct. 2025
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More than half are nurses, and the rest are a medley of employees who each occupy a special niche in the hospital.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
18 Oct. 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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In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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During a pretty boring game that ended in a 105-95 Knicks win, Eagle and his analyst, Stan Van Gundy, made some chicken salad.—
Andrew Marchand,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Power bowls, salads, and wraps are good light-bite options, and Sunday brunch is yummy, especially when served with a housemade Bloody Mary, of course.—
Erika Ebsworth-Goold,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
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Also try the herbed cavatelli in lamb ragout − one of my favorite pasta dishes in town − or the duck confit served on a bed of creamy cassoulet beans cooked low and slow in a stock of ham scraps and leeks.—
Keith Pandolfi,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
24 Oct. 2025
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Standouts include lamb ragout, beef bourguignon, pork fricassee with lyonnaise potatoes, and Southeast Asian favorites like nasi lemak with rendang chicken or char siew wonton mee.—
Kaila Yu,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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Rather, her photos, documents and collages point to the extreme paucity of surviving evidence and the utter impossibility of a cohesive, factual narrative.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Oct. 2025
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The film shows Matta Clark and an unnamed assistant struggling to come up with a quick solution, mixing graffiti with collage and stenciling.—
Antonio Sergio Bessa,
Curbed,
20 Oct. 2025
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The Chargers – who were 3-0 before their patchwork quilt of an offensive line was completely shredded by injuries – fell to 4-3.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
20 Oct. 2025
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Russia’s defense industry now looks like a patchwork quilt.—
ALEXANDRA PROKOPENKO,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Oct. 2025
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Sharland England’s catalog is the sort of thing Peter Rabbit himself might flip through to find a new heritage bed, a patchwork winter quilt, or a splatter cake stand for carrot cake.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
21 Oct. 2025
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The outage this week reflects the inevitability of holes in the cybersecurity patchwork that safeguards people’s digital lives, Liao said, but the priority should be how best to protect the internet.—
Max Zahn,
ABC News,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Macédoine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mac%C3%A9doine. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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