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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

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

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

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