medleys

noun

plural of medley
as in assortments
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things a medley of snack foods available on the buffet table

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Recent Examples of medleys Lowlights included uninspiring medleys. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026 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 This 27-track collection features updated mixes of iconic live performances alongside new remixes and medleys of classic Elvis recordings. — Bob Mehr, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 18 Feb. 2026 While further details on how the segment will work were not immediately available, awards shows often have multi-artist performances delivered as tight medleys, although eight is a lot. — Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Jan. 2026 Here, she's seen performing on her variety show, which featured a number of famous guests and her own musical medleys. — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025 Medleys ruled the show Over the course of the concert, the band interspersed their set list with three crowd-pleasing medleys. — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 22 Sep. 2025 A lot of those songs wind up in the polka medleys. — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025 Over the years, the telecast has become a predictable parade of tributes, medleys, and artist showcases, all sandwiched between award presentations that seem to please no one but the person who wins them—and even then, that’s not guaranteed. — Anna Gaca, Pitchfork, 3 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for medleys
  1. assortments
  2. varieties
  3. jumbles
  4. collages
Noun
  • The problem with this, Profitmind said, is that these approaches don’t work efficiently at scale, especially across large, frequently changing assortments wherein retailers describe and classify comparable products differently.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2026
  • At Publix and Walmart, the big-bag assortments of mini chocolate bars run between 14 cents to 22 cents per piece, but that can still get pricey in a hurry for people who live in complexes with large populations of kids trolling for treats.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of assortments
Noun
  • Permit holders can choose between pine, fir, and cedar varieties.
    — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 1 Nov. 2026
  • But this is really about family and family history, and about how there are so many new varieties of loneliness in the world.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of varieties
Noun
  • 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
  • Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.
    — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
Definition of jumbles
Noun
  • Pollard has also been immersed in surrealism and dada, fitting genres for a musician and visual artist who has a knack for bending words and images to his will — either via hallucinatory lyrics or collages that mesh realms both physical and meta.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Better be watching the clouds again and again (2000/2017) is a series of collages attributed to a fictional Lebanese Army officer named Fadwa Hassoun, who’d trained as a botanist.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of collages

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