odds and ends

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Recent Examples of odds and ends My first prints When given the opportunity to use a 3D printer, my mind went first to aggressively practical stuff—prints for organizing the odds and ends that eternally float around my office or desk. ArsTechnica, 22 May 2025 At the time it was covered in cobwebs and full of odds and ends, more like a storage room. Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2025 Hele Outdoors One final trick up the Hele Box's sleeve: The padded carry case doubles as a storage bin for keeping important camping odds and ends organized. New Atlas, 12 May 2025 Others are more like kitchen drawers overflowing with odds and ends: candle stubs, matchbooks, lids to missing jars, takeout menus from restaurants that shut down during Covid. A.o. Scott, New York Times, 2 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for odds and ends
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sundries
Plural Noun
  • There’s also a guide that shares where to find sundries like hot sauces, jams and spices produced by companies with owners from Black, Indigenous or other marginalized communities.
    Devorah Lev-Tov, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Nov. 2022
  • This is the place to stock up on baking ingredients, retro toys, candles, greeting cards and sundries.
    Necee Regis, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022

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