mélange
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Business leaders and politicians gathered in Zug one May evening to debate the referendum at a polished event space perched above the city, a manicured mélange of medieval buildings and glass-and-steel high-rises.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Rising temperatures, shifting precipitation, and emerging diseases are among the mélange of climate impacts changing what's grown in breadbaskets around the world.
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2025
Though competent, the flashy computed-generated effects give the impression of being recycled instead of uniquely designed for this lackluster mélange.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
The production is conceived, directed and choreographed by Kate Prince in a mélange of hip-hop and contemporary styles, and the dancers in her company, ZooNation, are technically amazing and totally committed.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Other nations, he wrote, had mounted exhibits of dignity and style, while American exhibitors erected a mélange of pavilions and kiosks with no artistic guidance and no uniform plan.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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But, Melendez-Badillo says, he's also a colonial subject -- a reality explored on "Debi Tirar Mas Fotos," which features an ingenious melange of traditional sounds including salsa, bomba and plena, with infusions of reggaeton.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026
This demographic melange is one reason Jewish Angelenos in particular were shaken by the attacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
Most employ a melange of satellite images, census data, historic fire information or climate projection that can roughly determine a home’s probability to burn — not only today, but over the next 30 years.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
The sprawling festival, which features hundreds of acts and a colourful, unending melange of art, has long advocated sustainability and was once home to one of the UK's largest private solar power plants.
From Reuters ● Jun. 24, 2023
The dress she wore was a voluminous melange of floral patterns that did much to accentuate the impressive girth of the wearer.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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There were salads, grain bowls, and hummus-based mélanges of varying quality—occasionally delightful but usually somewhere between pretty good and meh.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2020
His Combines—kitchen-sink mélanges of painting, sculpture, collage, and assemblage, including “Monogram”—absorbed that movement’s aesthetic breakthroughs, in dispersed composition and eloquent paint-handling, while subverting its frequently macho pathos.
From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017
“Lavender Ghost,” with its jagged shape and surface, is a good example of the elegant, fragmentlike mélanges that result.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2013
The 35 paintings and related gouaches at the Grey are amazingly weird metaphorical mélanges — rich with seductive painterly touches — that don’t mince images.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2012
Here lay an ovenful of the latest ethics—there a kettle of duodecimo mélanges.
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
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