hodgepodge

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Airlines decide for themselves whether it is safe to fly, an assessment typically based on a hodgepodge of government intelligence, regulatory advice and private-security consultants.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

Libor Svoboda, a historian at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, called the law a "hodgepodge" in its current shape but admitted it had fulfilled its task in the past.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

As we finished up our mid-afternoon meal — a hodgepodge of spicy tuna bites and asparagus fries paired with guava and berry mocktails — McCurdy reflected on the agency she is finally able to take.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026

This can result in a hodgepodge of different terms and references that can lead heirs to contest the validity of a trust or will.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 6, 2025

The men’s locker room—I’ve never seen the women’s—is itself nearly abandoned; though it’s stuffed with a hodgepodge of some two hundred lockers of inmate manufacture, fewer than twenty are actively used.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover