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hodgepodge

[hoj-poj] / ˈhɒdʒˌpɒdʒ /


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Broadcom came into the AI boom as a hodgepodge of chip and software businesses assembled by Chief Executive Hock Tan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Many of the projects are complex, multi-year efforts that involve a hodgepodge of agencies, experts and partnerships, such as ARCHES, the state’s billion-dollar hydrogen hub awarded under President Biden.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

So the consensus forecasts become a hodgepodge of estimates, with some tracking net income and some using earnings before bad stuff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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

The village square was decorated with a hodgepodge of greenery, flowers, and leafy garlands, plus a small birch tree the villagers had moved from the forest to the square.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack

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


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