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

I shake my head, trying to rid myself of a jumble of feelings.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

His answer is what he calls “Precarious Sculpture,” proliferating jumbles of lumpen objects made from common, impermanent stuff, as if refusing to play by the elitist rules of enduring art.

From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

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

From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2023

Most of the chambers were empty, but some contained jumbles of pipes.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Because the bot is trained on disparate data streams—not everyone studies nursing—inputs are frequently jumbled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 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

During a game, competitors are given files of jumbled data and scenarios or 'cases' that require sorting, based on a question, within the quickest time.

From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2025

In the architectural age of minimalism and millennial gray, a wild and whimsical antidote made of old clinker bricks and jumbled shingles sits on a quiet street at the edge of L.A. and Culver City.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2025

The wind gusted in a new direction, blowing from the jumbled saplings on the far side of the island.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

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 could sound halting, sometimes jumbling words, using the wrong one, and occasionally sounding off-key.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2022

Consider it like summer cleaning before most of the jumbling for the 2021-22 season happens after the Seattle expansion draft next week.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2021

And now, Luna felt as though she was in a storm of memories, jumbling around inside her skull.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill