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jumble

[juhm-buhl] / ˈdʒʌm bəl /




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But the museum was a defiantly freestanding building, whose vertical jumble of boxes is as essential to its identity as the continuous spiral of the Guggenheim.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Her remains may lie somewhere beneath the modern-day urban jumble of Mexico City.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

But it instantiates the way the story holds its jumble of optimism and disaster in a firm, two-handed grasp: death and chaos on one side, miracles and blessings on the other.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026

The author seems to trust that a coherent narrative will emerge, without the help of analytical threads, from a jumble of facts, tableaux, faces and innumerable quotes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

There was barely enough space for four people, much less the jumble of mattresses, boxes, and clothing filling the cramped room.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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