pastiche

Example Sentences

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Yale law professor Akhil Amar wrote in an amicus brief that the administration’s historical evidence amounts to “an artful pastiche of misleading, misinterpreted, and/or atypical shards.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

He opted for pseudo-macho pastiche, with a distinct Reddit-ish tang: Operation Epic Fury might as well translate to Operation Epic Bacon.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

Even in those cases, the AI content is basically a pastiche of human creation.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

As Ganz archly observed, “the word for the politics that makes a pastiche of past glories to create a new type of regime is ‘fascism.'”

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2025

The last of these quotations is a pastiche, but the other two are real, and all are typical of the inward-looking style that makes academic writing so tedious.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker