mélange

It introduces us to Chinese villagers 10,000 years ago who subsisted on a mélange of acorns, berries, deer and pigs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026

The vegetable mélange of childhood pot pies and plastic school cafeteria trays.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2026

For Lepore, the Constitution is a blueprint of a cathedral, one that has morphed since its inception, rather like New York’s unfinished St. John the Divine with its mélange of architectural styles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025

Teams are a mélange of locals and expats — some with college and minor league experience.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

The scene at the outdoor chess tables in Washington Square Park was a mélange of urban vitality and color.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

But, Melendez-Badillo says, he's also a colonial subject -- a reality explored on "Debi Tirar Mas Fotos," which features an ingenious melange of traditional sounds including salsa, bomba and plena, with infusions of reggaeton.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

Thanks to a melange of practical effects, matte paintings, miniatures, models and costly, groundbreaking special effects, Donner achieved a superhero movie that looks unlike anything made in the decades since.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2025

With a collection built around a light-catching melange of rainbow colors, BruceGlen is not about staples, but spreading joy.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 21, 2024

The sprawling festival, which features hundreds of acts and a colourful, unending melange of art, has long advocated sustainability and was once home to one of the UK's largest private solar power plants.

From Reuters ● Jun. 24, 2023

Von Rumpel expected a melange of fear and indignation and hunger, but Dupont sits upright.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

There were salads, grain bowls, and hummus-based mélanges of varying quality—occasionally delightful but usually somewhere between pretty good and meh.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2020

His Combines—kitchen-sink mélanges of painting, sculpture, collage, and assemblage, including “Monogram”—absorbed that movement’s aesthetic breakthroughs, in dispersed composition and eloquent paint-handling, while subverting its frequently macho pathos.

From The New Yorker ● May 22, 2017

“Lavender Ghost,” with its jagged shape and surface, is a good example of the elegant, fragmentlike mélanges that result.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2013

But it is precisely the kind of challenge that appeals to the cellist Maya Beiser, whose solo performances in recent seasons have been multimedia mélanges of classical, electronic and world music.

From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2011

Here lay an ovenful of the latest ethics—there a kettle of duodecimo mélanges.

From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various