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amalgam

[uh-mal-guhm] / əˈmæl gəm /


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They have a vast travelling army with them and millions more at home, a strange amalgam of positivity and anxiety, belief and fear.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

A beatnik radio host caught the Mets bug and praised baseball as a “kind of amalgam of all the human frustrations.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

Nations meeting in Geneva agreed "to end the use of dental amalgam by 2034, marking a historic milestone in reducing mercury pollution", the conference announced in its closing statement.

From Barron's Nov. 7, 2025

It was a confusing amalgam of emotions, largely compounded by my mom’s general reticence to discuss the topic outside of a personal account she self-published several years ago to process her yearslong PTSD.

From Salon Sep. 11, 2024

Candidates would need a degree of stenographic and typewriting skill, but what he most looked for and was so very adept at sensing was that alluring amalgam of isolation, weakness, and need.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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