congeries

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My own are his pansy collages, tightly packed, edge-to-edge congeries of overlapping floral faces that give off a bright radiance as well as well as a sense of menacing, staring eyes.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2022

The sixties may be just another decade, but The Sixties are something more – a mood, a state of mind, a way of life, a congeries of sounds and images.

From The Guardian • Apr. 15, 2018

Though Spencer came up with the term, it has come to define a broader congeries of reaction.

From Slate • Aug. 25, 2016

Twitter became a weird congeries of protest updates and jokes about Smee.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 5, 2014

As the word “interpolation” implies, Hermann did not maintain the hypothesis of a congeries of independent “lays.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various