amalgam

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A beatnik radio host caught the Mets bug and praised baseball as a “kind of amalgam of all the human frustrations.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Nations meeting in Geneva agreed "to end the use of dental amalgam by 2034, marking a historic milestone in reducing mercury pollution", the conference announced in its closing statement.

From Barron's • Nov. 7, 2025

Last month, an amalgam of Celtic fans' groups called the Celtic Fan Collective had a meeting with some key people at the club and they asked if Rodgers had the final say on all players.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

For Wolf Jackson, the dead tough-guy actor in the blockbuster “Beetlejuice” sequel, Dafoe referenced an amalgam of TV detectives and couldn’t resist going for “the Jack Lord hair.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

Handel, though, not only represented a musical amalgam of European styles during his lifetime; he also bequeathed to the next generation of composers a non-parochial, universal idiom that was venerated and built upon.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall