pastiches

noun

plural of pastiche
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 The series, which featured elaborate original musical numbers ranging from Broadway parodies to pop pastiches, earned Bloom a Golden Globe for best actress in a television comedy or musical as well as an Emmy and Critics’ Choice Award. — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026 Don your brightest Hawaiian shirt, eat a UHF Twinkie hotdog, and relish the blitz of his accordion pastiches and nonstop costume changes. — 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
  1. medleys
  2. varieties
  3. collages
  4. assortments
  5. jumbles
Noun
  • 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
Definition of medleys
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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • Asher’s, while primarily responsible for its own brand of chocolate bars and other assortments, will occasionally produce chocolate for bands, brands, charities and other companies.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of assortments
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

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“Pastiches.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastiches. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

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