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miscellany

[mis-uh-lay-nee, mi-sel-uh-nee] / ˈmɪs əˌleɪ ni, mɪˈsɛl ə ni /


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Those ideas are embodied in a thoughtful, thematically arranged miscellany of artifacts, with deliberate juxtapositions between past and present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

The book isn’t exhaustive but instead a curated miscellany of non-sequiturs and the kind of dinner-party lore Seu delights in.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

Dr Veronese found the sonnet featured in a miscellany - a type of manuscript which contains a selection of texts from different authors on various subjects - stored at the Bodleian Library.

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

I stood behind him, but could not see Bono’s miscellany.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

Like the two earlier miscellanies, this volume is Boswellian in its devotion to its subject and in its near-biblical bulk.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017

However, as it goes with the best musical miscellanies, Untitled Unmastered is also a tour through the artist’s sketchbook, sharing shifting moods and tangential thoughts amid the grander statements he’s known for.

From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2016

Fraser, Barry and Calasso’s miscellanies all belong to that sometimes cutesy, but usually captivating genre, “books about books.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2015

They were compilers of knowledge, either utilitarian or speculative, who used chapters as a way of organizing large miscellanies.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2014

Besides his great works on India, he was the author of numerous poems, dissertations, and other miscellanies, all of which ranked him high as a literary character.

From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Robert Williams




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