as in medley
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
a potpourri of hit songs from the last 10 years
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Recent Examples of potpourri
Fall potpourri is a delight to have around the house in the cozy autumn months.
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Cody Godwin, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
Indeed, the Nevada law goes further and has a veritable potpourri of other aspects.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The museum's potpourri includes an alcove detailing World War II's impact on baseball.
—Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2025
There’s a touch of toasted oak and a light floral potpourri fragrance.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
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Cody Godwin, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
Indeed, the Nevada law goes further and has a veritable potpourri of other aspects.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
The museum's potpourri includes an alcove detailing World War II's impact on baseball.
—Jack Schnedler, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2025
There’s a touch of toasted oak and a light floral potpourri fragrance.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for potpourri
Recent Examples of Synonyms for potpourri
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The medley for winter-weary Americans has included everything from aching backs from shoveling to sore throats to frozen noses.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
7 Feb. 2026
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That year, while the Dallas Cowboys were busy blowing out the Buffalo Bills, Michael Jackson performed a medley of hits.—
Randall Williams,
Fortune,
7 Feb. 2026
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Industry insiders explained how the assortment of signals and models underpinning the algorithms are helping the sector navigate precious metals’ wild ride.—
Hugh Leask,
CNBC,
9 Feb. 2026
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Gaga worked with Sarah Tanno on her glam, who used an assortment of products by Haus Labs.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
9 Feb. 2026
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What a great variety of stories and advertising.—
Lucia Cheng,
Des Moines Register,
6 Feb. 2026
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Davies’s direction reflects the variety of threads on which the movie’s subjectivity is based; one of the film’s most striking scenes occurs in the brothers’ absence.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.—
Lynda Balslev,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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The result also spotlights conference championships’ awkward fit in the current system, particularly given the fact that conference expansion has led to jumbles atop each league’s standings.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
7 Dec. 2025
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Holding a collage of photos of his sister, Joaquin Freire detailed how his sister Gloria Marcia Hall was devoted to her two daughters — until she was taken from them by a drunk driver almost two decades ago.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
10 Feb. 2026
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Scrolling through the results, Benning then selected a diverse set of reference images and turned these into digital collages on an app on their phone, finally executing them on paper through the highly personal and painstaking medium of watercolor.—
Alex Bacon,
Artforum,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Potpourri.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/potpourri. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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