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miscellany

[mis-uh-lay-nee, mi-sel-uh-nee] / ˈmɪs əˌleɪ ni, mɪˈsɛl ə ni /


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Those ideas are embodied in a thoughtful, thematically arranged miscellany of artifacts, with deliberate juxtapositions between past and present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

A few days after the interview, she sent over an exhaustive list of influences of writers, films, podcasts and other miscellany she might have mentioned or left out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026

Dr Veronese found the sonnet featured in a miscellany - a type of manuscript which contains a selection of texts from different authors on various subjects - stored at the Bodleian Library.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2025

The House released a negotiated short-term government funding bill this week, and a number of year-end priorities on health care, agriculture, and other miscellany were tacked on.

From Slate ● Dec. 21, 2024

I stood behind him, but could not see Bono’s miscellany.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Like the two earlier miscellanies, this volume is Boswellian in its devotion to its subject and in its near-biblical bulk.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017

However, as it goes with the best musical miscellanies, Untitled Unmastered is also a tour through the artist’s sketchbook, sharing shifting moods and tangential thoughts amid the grander statements he’s known for.

From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2016

Fraser, Barry and Calasso’s miscellanies all belong to that sometimes cutesy, but usually captivating genre, “books about books.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2015

They were compilers of knowledge, either utilitarian or speculative, who used chapters as a way of organizing large miscellanies.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014

Miscellan′eousness; Mis′cellānist, a writer of miscellanies; Mis′cellany, a mixture of various kinds: a collection of writings on different subjects—also n.pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various




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