miscellany
Example Sentences
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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
A miscellany of reviews, essays and diary entries first published in the London Review of Books, the collection finds Hitchens pouncing on disparate subjects with transcendent verve.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2024
The force of it knocked Anya’s armful of miscellany to the ground.
From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
