mélange
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It introduces us to Chinese villagers 10,000 years ago who subsisted on a mélange of acorns, berries, deer and pigs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
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
The production is conceived, directed and choreographed by Kate Prince in a mélange of hip-hop and contemporary styles, and the dancers in her company, ZooNation, are technically amazing and totally committed.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
It’s a mélange of the miraculous and the despairing.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2023
It smelled dirtier every day, a wretched mélange of fish and mud and chemicals.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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But, Melendez-Badillo says, he's also a colonial subject -- a reality explored on "Debi Tirar Mas Fotos," which features an ingenious melange of traditional sounds including salsa, bomba and plena, with infusions of reggaeton.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026
Thanks to a melange of practical effects, matte paintings, miniatures, models and costly, groundbreaking special effects, Donner achieved a superhero movie that looks unlike anything made in the decades since.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2025
Aside from that, however, the inciting image — and the particular melange of styles, genres and experiments that will come into play — are to be determined.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
The sprawling festival, which features hundreds of acts and a colourful, unending melange of art, has long advocated sustainability and was once home to one of the UK's largest private solar power plants.
From Reuters ● Jun. 24, 2023
Karl’s T-shirt was damp with a melange of different kinds of sweat: heat, effort, fear.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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There were salads, grain bowls, and hummus-based mélanges of varying quality—occasionally delightful but usually somewhere between pretty good and meh.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2020
His Combines—kitchen-sink mélanges of painting, sculpture, collage, and assemblage, including “Monogram”—absorbed that movement’s aesthetic breakthroughs, in dispersed composition and eloquent paint-handling, while subverting its frequently macho pathos.
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017
“Lavender Ghost,” with its jagged shape and surface, is a good example of the elegant, fragmentlike mélanges that result.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2013
But it is precisely the kind of challenge that appeals to the cellist Maya Beiser, whose solo performances in recent seasons have been multimedia mélanges of classical, electronic and world music.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2011
Here lay an ovenful of the latest ethics—there a kettle of duodecimo mélanges.
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
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Hidden Figures
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