jumble

“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

It’s the shattering confusion of grief—for his son, and for his own life as he expected to lead it—yet he has made of the resulting jumble a consoling, searching work of art.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

They also made their way through the rubble, even through narrow tunnels formed in the jumble of broken walls, columns, and beams, searching for survivors.

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 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

To be sure, the charade, with its “ready wit”—but then the “soft eyes”—in fact it suited neither; it was a jumble without taste or truth.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen

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

Then, a couple blocks to the south, a homeless encampment with jumbles of rusted cars and tents, piles of junk and battered furniture, on either side of the road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

His sunsum jumbles my thoughts and makes the room stuffy with power.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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 fact, when the painter mounted his own retrospective in Paris in 1932, he hung the works not according to chronology but jumbled together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

Target is a jumbled “knot of problems” that need to be sorted out, Saunders said.

From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025

My head is crammed with visions, all jumbled up like a ball of string: My parents alive, depositing me at Cornell.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

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

From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2025

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

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

Anya and Ivan clashed together again, leaves jumbling around them, as the Varangian picked up the sack and threw it over a shoulder.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack