mixed bag

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Recent Examples of mixed bag The manual focus experience is a mixed bag to me. PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2025 Unfortunately, the rest of the craft work is a mixed bag of goods. Courtney Howard, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025 The team’s signature late-game heroics and relatively clean bill of health last year have been replaced by a mixed bag of performances and a laundry list of injuries. Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025 Pribula had a mixed bag of a game. Quentin Corpuel, Kansas City Star, 28 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mixed bag
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mixed bag
Noun
  • The event can be prompted by a variety of factors, such as a flight-or-fight response, sensory stimulation or curiosity.
    Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Of the varieties of beans available, a half-cup serving typically provides 5 to 10 grams (g) of protein.
    Jennifer Lefton, Verywell Health, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The flowers look similar to wildflowers or cosmos, and come in a colorful assortment of autumnal shades like deep red, burnt orange, and light orange.
    Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Customers will find an assortment of authentic French pastries, sandwiches, coffee and more.
    Tanasia Kenney, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The Celtics will hope to hit on at least one of several small bets on a grab bag of mildly interesting players (Luka Garza, Josh Minott, Chris Boucher, Neemias Queta, Jordan Walsh, Baylor Scheierman and late first-rounder Hugo González).
    John Hollinger, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • But at his recent press conference, the President stood at the dais and delivered a barrage of falsehoods that might not be obviously false to most Americans—misrepresenting evidence on autism, distorting research on vaccines, and offering a grab bag of unscientific medical opinions.
    Dr. Craig Spencer, Time, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Mixed bag.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mixed%20bag. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.

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