mishmash
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mishmash
1425–75; late Middle English; gradational formation based on mash 1
Example Sentences
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At the time, the bank was a mishmash of financial firms that had been recently cobbled together.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
This was a mishmash of ideas with no clear identification marks.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2026
And on Thursday, he raised the possibility of a mixed Supreme Court decision resulting in “some kind of a mishmash of, ‘you can do this, you can’t do that.’”
From MarketWatch • Jan. 8, 2026
They feature a mishmash of architectural features, combining, say, the peaked roof of a farmhouse with squared-off sections reminiscent of city townhomes.
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2025
It was an easy twenty-minute commute through Torrance, a sun-soaked, industrial-suburban, multicultural mishmash of a place.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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