amalgam
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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
For Wolf Jackson, the dead tough-guy actor in the blockbuster “Beetlejuice” sequel, Dafoe referenced an amalgam of TV detectives and couldn’t resist going for “the Jack Lord hair.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
Serapis was an amalgam of Apis, the native bull god, and Osiris, the anthropomorphic lord of the dead—an instant “designer god” fashioned by the Ptolemies to give Greeks and Egyptians a deity in common.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
Vocabulary lists containing amalgam
"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 24
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