as in jumble
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
the exhibit was a hodgepodge of mediocre art, bad art, and really bad art
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Recent Examples of hodgepodge
Dave Keeling maintained this record, known as the Keeling Curve, using a running hodgepodge of short-term grants until 2005, at which point geochemist Ralph Keeling, a professor at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, coauthor of this piece and Dave’s son, assumed its stewardship.
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Eric Morgan, Wired News, 10 May 2025
The executive director of Colorado’s Department of Natural Resources instead was joined by a hodgepodge of U.S. Forest Service employees: a forest technician, a campgrounds manager, three seasonal hotshot firefighters.
—Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2025
New Coalition Against Book Bans Launches Nationwide With Support From Authors Like Judy Blume and Julia Quinn
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The Last Bookstore
The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles is a hodgepodge of new and used books, art and kitschy vendors.
—Grace Harrington, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Fragmentation And Its Challenges Historically, businesses and financial institutions relied on a hodgepodge of systems to manage FX risk.
—Benjamin Avraham, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Eric Morgan, Wired News, 10 May 2025
The executive director of Colorado’s Department of Natural Resources instead was joined by a hodgepodge of U.S. Forest Service employees: a forest technician, a campgrounds manager, three seasonal hotshot firefighters.
—Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2025
New Coalition Against Book Bans Launches Nationwide With Support From Authors Like Judy Blume and Julia Quinn
31 of 35
The Last Bookstore
The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles is a hodgepodge of new and used books, art and kitschy vendors.
—Grace Harrington, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
Fragmentation And Its Challenges Historically, businesses and financial institutions relied on a hodgepodge of systems to manage FX risk.
—Benjamin Avraham, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hodgepodge
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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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Dudley, who won an Academy prize for her work on The Full Monty, took to the stage to perform a medley of her work, including Poldark and Jeeves and Wooster.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
10 June 2025
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One major selling point, according to a SELF tester, is that this medley doesn’t skimp on the chocolate chunks.—
Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
10 June 2025
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The Army has taken a variety of steps to protect the streets, including laying metal plates along the parade's route.—
LOLITA C. BALDOR,
Arkansas Online,
15 June 2025
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The city’s downtown has seen a variety of protests, from quiet to boisterous.—
Carlos Rodriguez,
Chicago Tribune,
14 June 2025
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Walmart stores have an assortment of over 150,000 items in a location.—
Melissa Repko,
CNBC,
5 June 2025
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Fine Mess Bakery offers an assortment of beautiful pastries and, on weekends, excellent bread, while Isabel’s Espresso has coffee lovers covered.—
Leslie Kelly,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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With glossy pages, this book tracks the evolution of Claude’s prolific work across her entire career, from poems to photographic portraits and photomontages, to essays, word games and text collages.—
Dylin Hardcastle
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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Raymond Saunders: Flowers From a Black Garden is a dynamic selection of the artist’s layered, mixed-media works that blend painting, drawing, and collage.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
4 June 2025
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The mishmash of those layers is accentuated by you, the player, having controlled Joel as a character this whole time and thus having partial ownership over his heinous/heroic acts.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
26 May 2025
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Embrace this street styler’s playful sensibilities with a similarly coordinating mishmash of pink-toned pieces from Bode, Guest in Residence, and Zara.—
Talia Abbas,
Vogue,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Hodgepodge.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hodgepodge. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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