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assortment

[uh-sawrt-muhnt] / əˈsɔrt mənt /


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In the mayor’s race, Bass picked up donations from an assortment of city staffers, state lawmakers and members of Congress — Reps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

For a cleaner look, Kaelen Haworth, the owner of a luxury-clothing store in Toronto, likes choosing flowers in a single color or type, not an assortment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

“Our strategies are unlocking a better assortment in better-run stores, while allowing us to engage customers in more relevant and compelling ways,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

The team focused on improving quality and pairing down some assortment to tidy stores, said this person.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

At his request, they assemble an assortment of little cakes for him to take back to District 12, where he can examine their work in quiet.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

More details: Macy’s average selling price increased 9% in the quarter, driven by the changes to product assortments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Management called out the “tremendous opportunity” in the second half of the year as Burlington laps the late 2025 tariff-related disruptions in merchandise assortments.

From Barron's ● Mar. 6, 2026

But these shifts may still come at a cost to consumers and companies in the form of lower-quality products, more limited assortments or items that aren’t as attractive to shoppers wandering store aisles.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 8, 2026

Chaudhari offers two potential explanations for this surprising phenomenon: first, neural networks are never trained on random assortments of pixels.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2024

Out the window were sleepy towns, assortments of dark wooden buildings that seemed untouched by war yet worn and cracked by age.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata




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