as in medley
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
the alphabet soup of designer drugs that were available to patrons of the once-notorious disco
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Recent Examples of alphabet soup
My journey required no specialists, no injections, no alphabet soup of assisted reproductive acronyms.
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Anonymous, Vogue, 10 May 2025
Recycling can feel like alphabet soup: PET, PETE, and HDPE can be picked up through most curbside recycling programs and recycled into various products, like furniture, lumber, and bottles.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2025
The key is for business leaders to look beyond the buzzwords and the alphabet soup of model types to realize the use cases of AI.
—Toni Pisano, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Coming to the United States for anything but tourism usually means wading through an alphabet soup of visa types – more than two dozen for people who do not intend to become permanent residents of the US.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
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Anonymous, Vogue, 10 May 2025
Recycling can feel like alphabet soup: PET, PETE, and HDPE can be picked up through most curbside recycling programs and recycled into various products, like furniture, lumber, and bottles.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 May 2025
The key is for business leaders to look beyond the buzzwords and the alphabet soup of model types to realize the use cases of AI.
—Toni Pisano, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Coming to the United States for anything but tourism usually means wading through an alphabet soup of visa types – more than two dozen for people who do not intend to become permanent residents of the US.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alphabet soup
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Orange Bliss: Bursting with a medley of orange flavors, complemented by smooth vanilla and marmalade-like notes from Amarillo hops.—
Jess Fleming,
Twin Cities,
18 July 2025
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The release of the Cryptopsy medley is the latest addition to a month of ups and downs for Strings, who on Wednesday (July 16) received multiple nominations for the 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards – including entertainer and album of the year.—
Tyler Jenke,
Billboard,
17 July 2025
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Some varieties that give good harvests include Juliet, Sweet Million, Sweet Treat, Solid Gold and Sweet Chelsea.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
2 Aug. 2025
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The current Malvasia Pop Up—running through November 15th, Thursday to Sunday from 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM—offers tastings of 19 Italian Malvasia varieties, including some impossibly rare bottles.—
Jenn Rice,
Forbes.com,
2 Aug. 2025
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Margin pressure, brand confusion and an inability to localize assortment finally led the American parent to divest its last 15% stake in March 2025, marking a full exit from Japan.—
Rebecca Takada,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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One of the most beloved aspects of the festival, the annual assortment of tricks and treats is a feast for the genre-devoted and generally curious alike.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
24 July 2025
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In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.—
Lizzie Wade,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2025
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Instead, voters themselves are jumbles of competing and sometimes contradictory interests.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
14 Feb. 2025
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Photo collages in the waiting room show hundreds of patients, from infants to young adults.—
Joshua Rothman,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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This collage shows Shi'a Muslim cleric Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi (left) and President Donald Trump.—
Brendan Cole
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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There’s everything from 19th-century crazy quilts to vintage napkins, even a bag of stretchy strings.—
Hannah Martin,
Architectural Digest,
6 June 2025
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Without saying so explicitly, Gottlieb nailed the biggest challenge that the L.A. teams, and probably all four of the West Coast additions to the Big Ten, have faced all season, a crazy quilt schedule and insane travel.—
Jim Alexander,
Orange County Register,
2 Mar. 2025
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Over the last seven days, my schedule has looked like a patchwork quilt, spanning several distinct sectors of the health care industry.—
Alexis Kayser,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
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And even better, the green patchwork quilt of the Scottish countryside stretched out below, as the plane drifted down from the clouds.—
Nathan Tavares,
Travel + Leisure,
2 June 2025
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“Alphabet soup.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alphabet%20soup. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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