miscellany

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The word “anthology” comes from the Greek for “gathering of flowers”—that is, a miscellany.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Dr Veronese found the sonnet featured in a miscellany - a type of manuscript which contains a selection of texts from different authors on various subjects - stored at the Bodleian Library.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

The House released a negotiated short-term government funding bill this week, and a number of year-end priorities on health care, agriculture, and other miscellany were tacked on.

From Slate • Dec. 21, 2024

Federica Gigante, a historian at the University of Cambridge, first noticed it in a corner of a photograph while searching online for an image of a 17th-century collector whose miscellany was housed in the museum.

From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2024

Cora understood why—after the town deducted for food, housing, and miscellany like upkeep on the dormitories and schoolbooks, there was little left.

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