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• n  a motley assortment of things

• After many centuries of being a typically sloppy human mishmash in which vague intuitions and precise logic coexisted on equal terms, mathematics at the end of the 19th century was .
• It's a mishmash of big-box structures covered in aqua, blue and white tiles, with a little mustard yellow and brown thrown in to finish off the 1970s-nightmare look.
• And the trend has left corporate America a sartorial mishmash.

• odds and ends
• oddments
• melange
• farrago
• ragbag
• mingle-mangle
• hodgepodge
• hotchpotch
• gallimaufry
• omnium-gatherum

News & Articles

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• Mangled facts, secrecy brew confusion about NSA
  WASHINGTON — Wondering what the U.S. government might know about your phone calls and online life? And whether all of this really helps find terrorists? Good luck finding solid answers. Americans trying to wrap their minds around two giant surveillance programs are confronted with a mishmash of leaks, changing claims and secrecy. Members of Congress complain that their constituents are baffled ...
  June 14, 2013 - Boston Herald
• Alberta Ferretti Resort 2014
  Posted in Fashion / Fashion blog / Fashion pictures / Runway & fashion show pictures A wardrobe shaped by a world of travel was Alberta Ferretti’s philosophy for resort 2014, with a worldly muse and an eclectic mishmash of styles helping build up her cosmopolitan view. Traversing the globe and capturing its spirit in a suitcase, Alberta Ferretti’s woman doesn’t fear mixing India’s gleaming ...
  June 14, 2013 - StyleBistro

Quotes

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• Nick Clegg in guardian.co.uk
  Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, described the budget as a "mishmash of recycled announcements from a government skilled in raising false hopes but incompetent in delivering practical help".
• Warren Truss in Australasian Bus and Coach
  It is this mishmash of inconsistencies that could actually see greenhouse emissions rise than reduce them,Truss says. "This defies logic and commonsense; this is amateur hour performance from Labor."