oddments
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Though the resulting story can seem cobbled together, with obvious seams where oddments have been joined, its bright patchwork of anecdotes acquires its own strange logic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
“For eight dreary decades they plodded along in near‐obscurity, mere oddments in the game of baseball’s great geometric design,” Wells Twombly wrote.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
The “bricoleur addresses himself to a collection of oddments left over from human endeavours”, said Lévi-Strauss, and his motto, according to the critic Gérard Genette, is: “That might always come in handy.”
From The Guardian ● Oct. 21, 2016
Sitting side by side, they combed desultorily through oddments dusted with memories — his school yearbooks, clippings resurrecting high school baseball feats, a cassette tape of the “Star Wars” Christmas album.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2016
There, in Dallben’s chamber, moldering tomes overflowed the sagging shelves and spilled onto the floor amid heaps of iron cook-pots, studded belts, harps with or without strings, and other oddments.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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