omnium gatherum

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But maybe something about hustle, from its 1972 origins in the resilient youth of the battered South Bronx to the omnium-gatherum dance floors of 2023, deserves the title.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2023

Volume VI, an index and omnium-gatherum, was prefaced by Mr. Stokes’s apology to subscribers for the 13-year duration of the project.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2015

But isn’t a handbag sometimes just a handbag, rather than an omnium-gatherum?

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2014

His multilayered sound collage is an omnium-gatherum that includes — among much else — running water, traffic, babies crying and a variety of Irish traditional music.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011

This misuse, or rather this omnium-gatherum expansion and consequent extenuation of the word, Idea and Ideas, may be regarded as a calamity inflicted by Mr. Locke on the reigns of William III.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor