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smorgasbord

[smawr-guhs-bawrd, -bohrd, shmawr-] / ˈsmɔr gəsˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd, ˈʃmɔr- /
NOUN
buffet-style food
Synonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK


NOUN
miscellany of food
Synonyms


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The ambitious action-adventure's been compared to a buffet, presenting players with a smorgasbord of ideas, gameplay styles and quests to gorge on.

From BBC Mar. 19, 2026

Coming on the heels of the Grammy Award-winning “Harry’s House,” “Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally” is an experimental tour-de-force, a pop smorgasbord that is part homage, part electronica and part bacchanalia.

From Salon Mar. 6, 2026

Overachieving teenagers have long pursued a smorgasbord of résumé-polishing summer activities.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 16, 2026

Only much later would I realize that it wasn’t so much a smorgasbord of vendors as it was the Gorgon Medusa: When one head is removed, more sprout in its place.

From Slate Jan. 13, 2026

“Granite and slate,” he said each time we visited, “maybe a little soapstone, sprinkled with limestone and quartz. Minerals galore! It’s a smorgasbord of metamorphic marvels!”

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles




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