jumble

“Our home was a crazy jumble of pieces from different places we’d lived in before, all commingling, but not very happily; I called it the Island of Misfit Furniture.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

They also made their way through the rubble, even through narrow tunnels formed in the jumble of broken walls, columns, and beams, searching for survivors.

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026

"I just think fast fashion, we don't need it. We were all brought up in jumble sale clothes and it doesn't matter if they get dirty that way either."

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

The production feels like a jumble, and the casting doesn’t help sort out the mess.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

Figure 3.1: A random jumble of sound waves is heard as a noise.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

So by the time a public space opened up in 1977, the staff had a surfeit of wooden soapboxes containing jumbles of animal bones but little else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

The heist piece is straightforward, but at times the fallout distractingly jumbles the puzzle.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2025

Elsewhere, household detritus was littered among ruined deck chairs and jumbles of mangled trees outside wrecked homes.

From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2023

Look close, too, and you’ll see one of the key differences between Los Angeles and California: how quickly a traveler like Sackville-West skates rhetorically from L.A. to America to Hollywood, and jumbles up all three.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

Tied up along its shores was every conceivable kind of watercraft— Chinese junks, tugboats, rickety houseboats, old schooners, and barges heaped with jumbles of industrial cargo.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

"It could definitely catch fire again if the pattern isn't changed. As long as organic waste remains piled up in a jumbled mess, methane gas will continue to be produced underground."

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

While the disparate elements that go into a given arrangement might appear jumbled on paper, one always senses the logic behind each piece.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

There are cheap tickers jumbled with antiques that must have survived the house fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025

While it may not seem practical, the research helps scientists better understand the way information can be jumbled and disordered within a quantum system.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025

My thoughts are all jumbled up like ingredients in a mixing bowl, but I am curious about this giant cookie.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan

The move would be part of a larger shake-up jumbling several veteran anchors' time slots.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025

Fifty years ago, famed physicist Stephen Hawking wrote down an equation that predicts that a black hole has entropy, an attribute typically associated with the disordered jumbling of atoms and molecules in material.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 28, 2024

And for the coach tasked with jumbling his lineups to accommodate Leonard the reserve – while also juggling a minutes restriction for backup guard Wall, as well -- it presented more headaches than benefits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

Consider it like summer cleaning before most of the jumbling for the 2021-22 season happens after the Seattle expansion draft next week.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2021

Images from the day animate themselves, jumbling in my vision.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed