hodgepodge

Even if you don’t, you might, as this hodgepodge of anecdotes, trivia and theories is less about stamps in particular and more about the compulsion to collect in all its facets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The youngest son in a hodgepodge home, he wrote this memoir in 1993, gazing over his family’s 20th-century history.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

The narrative conjures meaning from the Los Angeles cityscape by fusing a hodgepodge of textbook theories about the sprawling metropolis onto the gritty reality of daily life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

Beyond the main boulevard, the city was a hodgepodge of medieval castle towers, Roman walls, limestone town houses with red-tiled roofs, and modern office buildings all crammed together.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

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