hodgepodge
a heterogeneous mixture; jumble.
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Treasury ended up making 11 loans from the fund, mostly to a hodgepodge of little-known companies.
Mnuchin defends controversial loan to private equity-backed firm in contentious Hill testimony | Yeganeh Torbati, Jeff Stein | December 10, 2020 | Washington PostFortunately, there’s a hodgepodge of other places you can still get your flu shot, and most of the time it’s free.
Analysts say Amazon Prime Day’s offers will be less of a hodgepodge than in previous years and clearly more focused on holiday items, either for oneself or others, with a focus on home appliances and consumer electronics.
Amazon Prime Day expected to hit nearly $10 billion in a big jolt to retailers’ holiday shopping plans | Phil Wahba | October 12, 2020 | FortuneThey noted that they were using a hodgepodge of tools like taking notes in Evernote or Google Docs, tracking their pipeline in Excel or Google Sheets and tracking tasks with paper lists or sticky notes.
Scratchpad announces $3.6M seed to put work space on top of Salesforce | Ron Miller | October 6, 2020 | TechCrunchThe lack of consistent asymptomatic testing guidelines means that from state to state, county to county, a hodgepodge of strategies are being used with varying standards, testing methods and levels of access.
America Doesn’t Have a Coherent Strategy for Asymptomatic Testing. It Needs One. | by Caroline Chen | September 1, 2020 | ProPublica
And the valley hosts a hodgepodge of homegrown Syrian-American groups—some with close ties to the government in Damascus.
The way Trainor talks can best be categorized as a cultural hodgepodge.
‘All About That Bass’ Singer Meghan Trainor On Haters and Her Polarizing (and Unlikely) No. 1 Hit | Marlow Stern | October 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere has been radicalization on the left, as well: Pasok has jettisoned voters to a hodgepodge of communist parties.
What culminated in an enlightening hodgepodge of artifacts began as a “replenishing, powerful journey,” she said.
Annie Leibovitz and Tina Brown on 'Pilgrimage,' Photography, and Vanity Fair | Kara Cutruzzula | December 12, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTHe picked up the story from the “dayslot,” a hodgepodge of random topics disseminated by an editor.
The loot that the Nipe had been stealing had, at first, seemed to be a hodgepodge of everything.
Anything You Can Do ... | Gordon Randall GarrettRemember then, that all is recorded by God and conscience; and all this hodgepodge of vanity must be reviewed and answered for.
A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) | Richard BaxterKay stood, entranced, gazing upon the hodgepodge of color; she had the feeling of having stepped out of one world into another.
The Pride of Palomar | Peter B. KyneThe Church was a hodgepodge of conflicting doctrines and ceremonial.
Cornish Characters | S. Baring-GouldThen there was all that occultistic hodgepodge with the old Hindoo.
The Long Arm | Franz Habl
British Dictionary definitions for hodgepodge
/ (ˈhɒdʒˌpɒdʒ) /
a jumbled mixture
a thick soup or stew made from meat and vegetables
Origin of hodgepodge
1- Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): hotchpotch
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