congeries
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My own are his pansy collages, tightly packed, edge-to-edge congeries of overlapping floral faces that give off a bright radiance as well as well as a sense of menacing, staring eyes.
From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
The sixties may be just another decade, but The Sixties are something more – a mood, a state of mind, a way of life, a congeries of sounds and images.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2018
Though Spencer came up with the term, it has come to define a broader congeries of reaction.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2016
Twitter became a weird congeries of protest updates and jokes about Smee.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 5, 2014
"Positive philosophy," with complacent sciolism, may still coldly asseverate that the world is a dead congeries of "laws," into whose realm man is cast to take pot-luck in the universe; but we shall know better.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various
