mélange

Business leaders and politicians gathered in Zug one May evening to debate the referendum at a polished event space perched above the city, a manicured mélange of medieval buildings and glass-and-steel high-rises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

That’s the whimsical, charged appeal of the Charli XCX-starring “Erupcja,” a mélange of romance, escape and disruptive coincidence in modern Warsaw from American micro-auteur Pete Ohs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

Rising temperatures, shifting precipitation, and emerging diseases are among the mélange of climate impacts changing what's grown in breadbaskets around the world.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2025

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

Other nations, he wrote, had mounted exhibits of dignity and style, while American exhibitors erected a mélange of pavilions and kiosks with no artistic guidance and no uniform plan.

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

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

Thanks to a melange of practical effects, matte paintings, miniatures, models and costly, groundbreaking special effects, Donner achieved a superhero movie that looks unlike anything made in the decades since.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2025

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

The brand’s famed knitwear is pretty in melange, which layers nicely.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022

I guess they’ve had to fall back on a melange, whatever they could scrounge or salvage.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

The 35 paintings and related gouaches at the Grey are amazingly weird metaphorical mélanges — rich with seductive painterly touches — that don’t mince images.

From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2012

Here lay an ovenful of the latest ethics—there a kettle of duodecimo mélanges.

From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various