jumble

It’s the shattering confusion of grief—for his son, and for his own life as he expected to lead it—yet he has made of the resulting jumble a consoling, searching work of art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

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

The foreign front is described as being in disarray, with different envoys tasked with a jumble of international conflicts and some, like Steve Witkoff, given far too many assignments at once.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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

She also finally had time to sort through her jumble of insect notes and paintings from years of flower and caterpillar investigations.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman

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

Saving and paying for college is an endurance test, a forced march on an often 50-year parade, where strange numerical codes and senseless jumbles of letters mark a route that Waze can’t map.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 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

Years of mismanagement and ill-fated transfers have left Spurs with a jumbled squad and a hair trigger for firing coaches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026

During a game, competitors are given files of jumbled data and scenarios or 'cases' that require sorting, based on a question, within the quickest time.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025

In the architectural age of minimalism and millennial gray, a wild and whimsical antidote made of old clinker bricks and jumbled shingles sits on a quiet street at the edge of L.A. and Culver City.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

Target is a jumbled “knot of problems” that need to be sorted out, Saunders said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025

I’m not very hungry, and my insides feel rather jumbled and bad.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

It has been delaying and postponing matches, jumbling the schedule, prompting court changes and, all in all, creating stress and uncertainty for the world’s best tennis players.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

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

The jumbling together of genetic material from the virus and the animal does not prove that a raccoon dog itself was infected.

From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

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

And now, Luna felt as though she was in a storm of memories, jumbling around inside her skull.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill