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“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

One target might look like an abstract drawing representing a feeling, another might be a jumble of words and symbols such as “Love,” “$” and “Health.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 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

In one hand she held three fishing nets and in the other, a bucket with a jumble of mini flashlights.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

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

His answer is what he calls “Precarious Sculpture,” proliferating jumbles of lumpen objects made from common, impermanent stuff, as if refusing to play by the elitist rules of enduring art.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

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

From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2023

Crashes, thuds, and bangs are loud, short jumbles of lots of different wavelengths.

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

If you happened to miss Sunday’s jumbled mess of a Golden Globes ceremony, the telecast can be best summed up by a scene from one of the night’s most nominated films.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026

In fact, when the painter mounted his own retrospective in Paris in 1932, he hung the works not according to chronology but jumbled together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Target is a jumbled “knot of problems” that need to be sorted out, Saunders said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025

The last few weeks of celebrity gossiping, scheming and the occasional fart may feel like one big crazy jumbled dream.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025

Maybe that would straighten out their jumbled brains!

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

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

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025

It has been delaying and postponing matches, jumbling the schedule, prompting court changes and, all in all, creating stress and uncertainty for the world’s best tennis players.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

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

But standing in the dark, holding Colin’s hand—it’s jumbling my thoughts in the most annoying of ways.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin