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hodgepodge

[hoj-poj] / ˈhɒdʒˌpɒdʒ /


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A hodgepodge of live cuts, outtakes, British LP tracks and singles, this album shows the Stones rapidly gaining confidence and playing with equal parts finesse and fire.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

He boasts of achieving a seventh-degree black belt in Keichu-do karate, a Cajun hodgepodge martial art developed by his biological father, Karl.

From Slate Jun. 29, 2026

“It will give researchers a chance to see if we put this hodgepodge of carrots and sticks together,” said Jeanna Kenney, an economics and real-estate professor at the Villanova School of Business.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

What follows is a sometimes frustrating, often hilarious hodgepodge of observations about the innate folly of living in a world where treating employees with basic respect is seen as optional.

From Salon May 22, 2026

Around them a hodgepodge of creatures and people erected their stalls, hung their flags and wheeled their barrows.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

His shows were hodgepodges of muchness — jewelry and eyeglasses and bags and clothes — that celebrated character over chic.

From New York Times Nov. 23, 2022

They face states, counties and cities with shifting and often senseless hodgepodges of guidelines and restrictions, or, sometimes, no rules at all.

From New York Times Feb. 19, 2021

I continue to receive these nonsensical hodgepodges of random numbers & letters.

From New York Times Aug. 25, 2016

In particular, operas known as pasticcios staged in the 17th and 18th centuries were freewheeling hodgepodges, offering fast-paced spectacles of music by several composers, with plot, action and libretto altered at whim.

From New York Times Oct. 25, 2010

Indian companies were formerly privately owned hodgepodges put together, without economic rhyme or reason, over the years.

From Time Magazine Archive




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