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oddments





NOUN
scraps
Synonyms
WEAK




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Though the resulting story can seem cobbled together, with obvious seams where oddments have been joined, its bright patchwork of anecdotes acquires its own strange logic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

“For eight dreary decades they plodded along in near‐obscurity, mere oddments in the game of baseball’s great geometric design,” Wells Twombly wrote.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022

And in crazy quilts, oddments of fabric rub up against each other to the point of dizziness.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2019

And there are those, like this reporter, whose magpie ambition is to collect random shiny conversational oddments like the one above.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2017

There, in Dallben’s chamber, moldering tomes overflowed the sagging shelves and spilled onto the floor amid heaps of iron cook-pots, studded belts, harps with or without strings, and other oddments.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander


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