as in jumble
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
the painting was just a mishmash of colors and abstract shapes as far as we could tell
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Recent Examples of mishmash
Unlike Paris, with its mishmash of eclectic architectural styles, Toulouse has a much more unified look, and it's characterized by its eye-catching, terra-cotta brick buildings.
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Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2025
But the film is a total mess, start to finish: a mishmash of It and some military-thriller, monster-movie clichés culminating in a junky special-effects ending that barely makes sense.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
But this mishmash of marble wasn’t a scam to get the wealthy Weddell to purchase a seemingly intact statue of Athena.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
Scheduled in the Friday 8 p.m. hour, ratings plummeted and this mishmash of comedy and drama Brady style was canceled after just six episodes.
—Marc Berman, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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Instead, voters themselves are jumbles of competing and sometimes contradictory interests.—
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Baker also leads the orchestra, which sounds grand — although the sound in the arts center’s Pugh Theater often left musicians, lead singers and chorus all at the same level, with actors speaking over all of it at the same time to create a sonic jumble.—
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The boys of ’90s country got their due elsewhere in the night, with a Blake Shelton/Clint Black/Trace Adkins medley of three-decade-old hits.—
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Reba McEntire will perform a medley of Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn classics.—
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There’s no need to winnow down the dinner menu to showstoppers only, so throw that anxiety out the window and load up the table with a variety of our best Easter recipes.—
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The iPhone 15 Pro is available here in a variety of colors and prices in Renewed Premium condition.—
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At the time, her designs pushed the limits and got left out of assortments.—
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Breeding for More Than Just Color Mr. Baker could have supplied his customers with a flashy assortment of coleus ordered from wholesale sources, skipping years of effort (but missing all the astonishment).—
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Brainard’s practice as a visual artist was extremely varied, and included drawings and comics, collage and assemblages, and more traditional oil paintings.—
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Her collages layer imagery of women draped in tobes, floating through cosmic landscapes in shades of coral, white, and blue, or weeping rubies that cascade like tears.—
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That’s because Gulf & Western was a hodgepodge the parts of which were more valuable than the whole and Bluhdorn was seen as an obstacle to breaking it up. Carl Icahn and other corporate raiders piled in, and the stock rose by nearly 40% during the week after Bluhdorn’s death.—
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Or will Black Spire Outpost fall out of canon and become a hodgepodge of Star Wars history?—
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“Mishmash.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mishmash. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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