jumble
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They also made their way through the rubble, even through narrow tunnels formed in the jumble of broken walls, columns, and beams, searching for survivors.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
"I just think fast fashion, we don't need it. We were all brought up in jumble sale clothes and it doesn't matter if they get dirty that way either."
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
We store memories as a jumble of sensory fragments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
The production feels like a jumble, and the casting doesn’t help sort out the mess.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Max asked, because he couldn’t make sense of the jumble of letters on her name tag.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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So by the time a public space opened up in 1977, the staff had a surfeit of wooden soapboxes containing jumbles of animal bones but little else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
The heist piece is straightforward, but at times the fallout distractingly jumbles the puzzle.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2025
His answer is what he calls “Precarious Sculpture,” proliferating jumbles of lumpen objects made from common, impermanent stuff, as if refusing to play by the elitist rules of enduring art.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
Elsewhere, household detritus was littered among ruined deck chairs and jumbles of mangled trees outside wrecked homes.
From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2023
Regardless of whether the engineers conducted a test in a wind tunnel or in free flight, the output was the same: torrents, scads, bundles, reams, masses, mounds, jumbles, piles, and goo-gobs of numbers.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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Because the bot is trained on disparate data streams—not everyone studies nursing—inputs are frequently jumbled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
The last few weeks of celebrity gossiping, scheming and the occasional fart may feel like one big crazy jumbled dream.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
While it may not seem practical, the research helps scientists better understand the way information can be jumbled and disordered within a quantum system.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025
The film is teeming with viral headlines — serious, frivolous or false — jumbled together on computer screens screaming for attention in the same all-caps font.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
Here they were hidden from view, and as Kate waited for Reynie to catch his breath, she jerked her thumb behind them, where the land erupted into a jumbled labyrinth of dunes and rocky hills.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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The move would be part of a larger shake-up jumbling several veteran anchors' time slots.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025
Fifty years ago, famed physicist Stephen Hawking wrote down an equation that predicts that a black hole has entropy, an attribute typically associated with the disordered jumbling of atoms and molecules in material.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 28, 2024
And for the coach tasked with jumbling his lineups to accommodate Leonard the reserve – while also juggling a minutes restriction for backup guard Wall, as well -- it presented more headaches than benefits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022
Consider it like summer cleaning before most of the jumbling for the 2021-22 season happens after the Seattle expansion draft next week.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2021
He shook his head, like jumbling his thoughts would make them fall clearer, let him see that he was mistaken.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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