as in medleys
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
each addition to the house was done in a markedly different architectural idiom, and the result is a whimsical pastiche
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Recent Examples of pastiches
Don your brightest Hawaiian shirt, eat a UHF Twinkie hotdog, and relish the blitz of his accordion pastiches and nonstop costume changes.
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Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
8 Jan. 2026
While these books tend toward enjoyable pastiches, at least one rises to the level of an art form.
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Yvonne Zipp,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 Apr. 2025
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
8 Jan. 2026
While these books tend toward enjoyable pastiches, at least one rises to the level of an art form.
—
Yvonne Zipp,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastiches
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Lowlights included uninspiring medleys.
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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).
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The wines nod to both Rhône and Bordeaux varieties grown across three estate vineyards in the Rocks District and Yakima Valley, with room for quirks such as Picpoul and the Portuguese Tinta Cão that grow almost nowhere else in the country.
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The bakery will offer more than 150 varieties of breads, pastries and desserts.
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New designs are layered on top of old, creating accidental collages between eras.
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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.
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Where assortments were once strongly driven by trends, today the starting point is the customer.
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The assortments give shoppers a chance to try several scent profiles without committing to one full-size luxury bottle.
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Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.
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Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.
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“Pastiches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastiches. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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