mélange
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It introduces us to Chinese villagers 10,000 years ago who subsisted on a mélange of acorns, berries, deer and pigs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Though competent, the flashy computed-generated effects give the impression of being recycled instead of uniquely designed for this lackluster mélange.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
The production is conceived, directed and choreographed by Kate Prince in a mélange of hip-hop and contemporary styles, and the dancers in her company, ZooNation, are technically amazing and totally committed.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
It’s a mélange of the miraculous and the despairing.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2023
It smelled dirtier every day, a wretched mélange of fish and mud and chemicals.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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But, Melendez-Badillo says, he's also a colonial subject -- a reality explored on "Debi Tirar Mas Fotos," which features an ingenious melange of traditional sounds including salsa, bomba and plena, with infusions of reggaeton.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026
The sprawling festival, which features hundreds of acts and a colourful, unending melange of art, has long advocated sustainability and was once home to one of the UK's largest private solar power plants.
From Reuters ● Jun. 24, 2023
Extra points if you cap this luscious melange with grated gruyere and parm then stick it under the broiler for a few minutes before serving it with torn pieces of baguette for lunch.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023
The brand’s famed knitwear is pretty in melange, which layers nicely.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
Von Rumpel expected a melange of fear and indignation and hunger, but Dupont sits upright.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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There were salads, grain bowls, and hummus-based mélanges of varying quality—occasionally delightful but usually somewhere between pretty good and meh.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2020
His Combines—kitchen-sink mélanges of painting, sculpture, collage, and assemblage, including “Monogram”—absorbed that movement’s aesthetic breakthroughs, in dispersed composition and eloquent paint-handling, while subverting its frequently macho pathos.
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017
“Lavender Ghost,” with its jagged shape and surface, is a good example of the elegant, fragmentlike mélanges that result.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2013
But it is precisely the kind of challenge that appeals to the cellist Maya Beiser, whose solo performances in recent seasons have been multimedia mélanges of classical, electronic and world music.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2011
Here lay an ovenful of the latest ethics—there a kettle of duodecimo mélanges.
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
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