mélange

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

The vegetable mélange of childhood pot pies and plastic school cafeteria trays.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 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

Teams are a mélange of locals and expats — some with college and minor league experience.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

It smelled dirtier every day, a wretched mélange of fish and mud and chemicals.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

With a collection built around a light-catching melange of rainbow colors, BruceGlen is not about staples, but spreading joy.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

This demographic melange is one reason Jewish Angelenos in particular were shaken by the attacks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023

Their eyes met, and what she saw in the bilious melange of green and orange was not shock, or guilt, but a form of challenge, or even triumph.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

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