word salad
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of word salad
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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Nor would you be alone if you understood little of that AI word salad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
A delicious word salad: How many words can you create with the letters Y, B, O, F, U, and N?
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
The line is supposed to be a little funny, a wink at the fashion industry’s love of effusive word salad descriptions that are only conveyed in the actual garments about half the time.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2025
It could be interpreted this way, but this has become an unsatisfactory word salad.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2024
My sisters could not comprehend Tata Ndu’s word salad of French and Kikongo, so were merely spellbound by the presence of a celebrity on the porch.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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