jumble

“Our home was a crazy jumble of pieces from different places we’d lived in before, all commingling, but not very happily; I called it the Island of Misfit Furniture.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 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

"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

The V&A opened an eastern beachhead in 2025 with V&A East Storehouse, a dense, hands-on jumble of imperial treasure and modern design that opens the institution’s collections to visitors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026

Here on the western bank was the Thebes he knew, a vast jumble of workshops and laboratories known as the City of the Dead.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

The claim is that over time there is an increasing ratio of winners to jumbles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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

In her mind, she was planning her escape route: She could follow the cliff-top plateau north for a way, and then there were rock jumbles and trees she could hide in.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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

If you happened to miss Sunday’s jumbled mess of a Golden Globes ceremony, the telecast can be best summed up by a scene from one of the night’s most nominated films.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025

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

I paint a crown of starfish and golden hair, all jumbled together because the body and the mind are all part of the same being.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

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

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

It's the physical and mental fatigue of these jobs that sometimes scrambles my thoughts, jumbling my hatred for hoarding and anger at the misery it inflicts on people with hostility toward the people themselves.

From Salon ● May 30, 2020

But standing in the dark, holding Colin’s hand—it’s jumbling my thoughts in the most annoying of ways.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin