mélange

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For Lepore, the Constitution is a blueprint of a cathedral, one that has morphed since its inception, rather like New York’s unfinished St. John the Divine with its mélange of architectural styles.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2025

A mélange of different ethnic identities, languages, religions, castes, and customs makes up the 1.5 billion humans who live here.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 3, 2024

It’s a mélange of the miraculous and the despairing.

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2023

Sarsaparilla drinks often were made with only sarsaparilla, instead of the mélange of flavors common to root beers, making it perhaps taste a bit more medicinal than refreshing.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2023

It smelled dirtier every day, a wretched mélange of fish and mud and chemicals.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers