hodgepodge

This fascinating book is a study in how archival documentaries in the 1930s lurched forward—from episodic newsreels to hodgepodge feature-length efforts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

I had a relatively smooth experience, but still found a hodgepodge of policies and procedures with the new system, which replaces the booths-and-passport-stamp system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

A hodgepodge of live cuts, outtakes, British LP tracks and singles, this album shows the Stones rapidly gaining confidence and playing with equal parts finesse and fire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

He boasts of achieving a seventh-degree black belt in Keichu-do karate, a Cajun hodgepodge martial art developed by his biological father, Karl.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Only a glance showed us that this was more than the usual hodgepodge of bric-a-brac and hollow-seated chairs.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

His shows were hodgepodges of muchness — jewelry and eyeglasses and bags and clothes — that celebrated character over chic.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022

They face states, counties and cities with shifting and often senseless hodgepodges of guidelines and restrictions, or, sometimes, no rules at all.

From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2021

I continue to receive these nonsensical hodgepodges of random numbers & letters.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2016

In particular, operas known as pasticcios staged in the 17th and 18th centuries were freewheeling hodgepodges, offering fast-paced spectacles of music by several composers, with plot, action and libretto altered at whim.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2010

Indian companies were formerly privately owned hodgepodges put together, without economic rhyme or reason, over the years.

From Time Magazine Archive