mishmash
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mishmash
1425–75; late Middle English; gradational formation based on mash 1
Example Sentences
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On this record, the singer turned away from her R&B roots to create a mishmash compilation of rock-infused tracks.
From Los Angeles Times
“The company is just sort of a mishmash of a brand right now,” Lewison said.
From Los Angeles Times
The plot is a lovable mishmash of spy nonsense — Dan Aykroyd does a lot of conspiracy babbling — but “Sneakers” works best if you just let it be the relaxed conversation movie it wants to be.
From Los Angeles Times
In an experimental phase, the interior line has been a mishmash with Zion Johnson and Bradley Bozeman flipping between center and left guard.
From Los Angeles Times
As he saw it, public understanding of depression as a chemical imbalance is vague, a “mishmash of buzzwords,” he wrote, and Moncrieff had used that misperception to attack the validity of antidepressants themselves.
From Salon
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