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 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
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
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
The vendor of miscellanies gasped, open-mouthed, like a fish, and steadied himself against the counter.
From Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories by Joseph Lewis French
Vocabulary lists containing miscellany
"How It Feels to Be Colored Me"
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