concoction
Example Sentences
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"Vooaaria!" the bird croaked, a concoction of sounds that resembled a drunken old man.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
They didn’t know their chocolate-hazelnut concoction was aboard Orion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Hartline, the creator of the show, described the concoction as a mixture of theater, performance arts and character development.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026
We are always more afraid of something if it sounds like an artificial concoction rather than a natural product, even though asp venom and great white sharks are perfectly natural.
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2026
Then she went back to the small house where she lived and boiled the roots and herbs, making a strange dark-looking concoction.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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