jumble

Another function is to translate a jumble of oral commands into a clear and concise text message.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

“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

"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

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

Elsewhere, household detritus was littered among ruined deck chairs and jumbles of mangled trees outside wrecked homes.

From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2023

Look close, too, and you’ll see one of the key differences between Los Angeles and California: how quickly a traveler like Sackville-West skates rhetorically from L.A. to America to Hollywood, and jumbles up all three.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

Tied up along its shores was every conceivable kind of watercraft— Chinese junks, tugboats, rickety houseboats, old schooners, and barges heaped with jumbles of industrial cargo.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

"It could definitely catch fire again if the pattern isn't changed. As long as organic waste remains piled up in a jumbled mess, methane gas will continue to be produced underground."

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

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

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

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

To get to the kitchen she had to step over an upturned toolbox, its contents jumbled on the floor, nails fanned like pick-up-sticks.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

He could sound halting, sometimes jumbling words, using the wrong one, and occasionally sounding off-key.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2022

Anya and Ivan clashed together again, leaves jumbling around them, as the Varangian picked up the sack and threw it over a shoulder.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack