amalgam
Example Sentences
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A beatnik radio host caught the Mets bug and praised baseball as a “kind of amalgam of all the human frustrations.”
“The questions of marriage and having children were sort of an amalgam of two real relationships that I merged into one onscreen.”
From Los Angeles Times
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
Ironically, it never took place in reality, and was an amalgam of reports of riots and carnage throughout the city.
It is an amalgam of microeconomic irritants that vary by individual, time and place.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
