amalgam
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They have a vast travelling army with them and millions more at home, a strange amalgam of positivity and anxiety, belief and fear.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
“As most fiction, it is a composite, an amalgam of personal experience, research and my fertile, overactive imagination,” Raicek said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Paltrow: She’s an amalgam of a few ideas, but principally Grace Kelly, who also had this amazing movie career and was this incredible star, and then walked away from it for marriage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025
Nations meeting in Geneva agreed "to end the use of dental amalgam by 2034, marking a historic milestone in reducing mercury pollution", the conference announced in its closing statement.
From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025
Few spoke English, and the lingua franca was an amalgam of many tongues known as Fanagalo.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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