jumble

Another function is to translate a jumble of oral commands into a clear and concise text message.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

“Our home was a crazy jumble of pieces from different places we’d lived in before, all commingling, but not very happily; I called it the Island of Misfit Furniture.”

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026

"I just think fast fashion, we don't need it. We were all brought up in jumble sale clothes and it doesn't matter if they get dirty that way either."

From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026

I’ll give you a minute to parse that jumble of words …

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

Katz led the way, barefoot and in boxer shorts, using a long stick like a punting pole to try to pick his way across on a jumble of submerged or half submerged logs.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

So by the time a public space opened up in 1977, the staff had a surfeit of wooden soapboxes containing jumbles of animal bones but little else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

The heist piece is straightforward, but at times the fallout distractingly jumbles the puzzle.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2025

Elsewhere, household detritus was littered among ruined deck chairs and jumbles of mangled trees outside wrecked homes.

From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2023

Look close, too, and you’ll see one of the key differences between Los Angeles and California: how quickly a traveler like Sackville-West skates rhetorically from L.A. to America to Hollywood, and jumbles up all three.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023

A mischievous laugh jumbles from his mouth now.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

The problem had a secondary consequence - the field order was jumbled up, and one reading of the rules could have meant the grid order should change for any restart.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

Initially intriguing, the jumbled chronology eventually proves to be largely decorative until a disappointing late-reel twist explains why the labored device was deployed in the first place.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Years of mismanagement and ill-fated transfers have left Spurs with a jumbled squad and a hair trigger for firing coaches.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2026

If you happened to miss Sunday’s jumbled mess of a Golden Globes ceremony, the telecast can be best summed up by a scene from one of the night’s most nominated films.

From Salon ● Jan. 13, 2026

Of course she had never considered that their father, who could not even trap a mouse, had shot their friend, but the connections seemed jumbled.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

The move would be part of a larger shake-up jumbling several veteran anchors' time slots.

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025

It has been delaying and postponing matches, jumbling the schedule, prompting court changes and, all in all, creating stress and uncertainty for the world’s best tennis players.

From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2024

Fifty years ago, famed physicist Stephen Hawking wrote down an equation that predicts that a black hole has entropy, an attribute typically associated with the disordered jumbling of atoms and molecules in material.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 28, 2024

And for the coach tasked with jumbling his lineups to accommodate Leonard the reserve – while also juggling a minutes restriction for backup guard Wall, as well -- it presented more headaches than benefits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

He shook his head, like jumbling his thoughts would make them fall clearer, let him see that he was mistaken.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny