grab bag
Example Sentences
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Markel didn’t help itself with a disappointing first-quarter profit report in late April that reflected weakness at the noninsurance businesses—a grab bag of about two dozen companies.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
But if you can’t get a grab bag, you can perhaps sip on an award-winning wine.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 24, 2026
Donaldson also juggles a loose grab bag of philanthropic efforts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2026
It’s mostly a grab bag of targeted subsidies: for parents of small children, for first-time homebuyers, for small businesses, for manufacturing and technology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024
We’re lucky that English, with its stretchy grammar and its giant grab bag of a vocabulary, gives us so much room for verbal play, if not anarchy.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
