miscellany
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The word “anthology” comes from the Greek for “gathering of flowers”—that is, a miscellany.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
The sonnet sits in the miscellany alongside "politically charged" works from the 1640s - the decade of the English Civil War, fought between Royalists and Parliamentarians.
From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025
The House released a negotiated short-term government funding bill this week, and a number of year-end priorities on health care, agriculture, and other miscellany were tacked on.
From Slate • Dec. 21, 2024
Federica Gigante, a historian at the University of Cambridge, first noticed it in a corner of a photograph while searching online for an image of a 17th-century collector whose miscellany was housed in the museum.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2024
Cora understood why—after the town deducted for food, housing, and miscellany like upkeep on the dormitories and schoolbooks, there was little left.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Vocabulary lists containing miscellany
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
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Intermediate, List 6
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Unit 1, Week 3
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