(1) A motley assortment of things.
(2) A stew (or thick soup.
(3) A stew (or thick soup) made with meat and vegetables.
(1) To call the Scottish legislative programme a hotchpotch is an insult to stews.
(2) Opting for the latest trend every year can result in a hotchpotch of investments too heavily exposed to a particular risk in the economy.
(3) Overshadowed by the Minster, the largest gothic cathedral in northern Europe, York is a hotchpotch of narrow, cobbled lanes and medieval alleyways.
(4) A nationalised corporation, Amtrak, runs all the trains on tracks owned by a hotchpotch of companies (again the effective reverse of the British situation).
(5) The content is currently a hotchpotch of what is available (for free), and what a variety of educational institutions around the country can rustle up.
(6) A hotchpotch of uncoordinated services
(7) The main shopping thoroughfares of Lord, Church, and Bold Streets, achieve, in spite of a dearth of any really good buildings, and a hotchpotch of eccentric styles, quite a pleasing effect.
(8) This is a truly dreadful movie, a hotchpotch of historical inaccuracies and romantic fiction.
(9) Now, for the simplest act of finding a phone number from a finite list, we are faced with a hotchpotch of different companies, all charging different amounts, all applying different conditions.
(10) The villa itself is a hotchpotch of classical bits and bobs (u2018fragments of ancient marbleu2026 stuck into the walls like nuts in nougat u2019, as Chatwin puts it).
(11) This political hodgepodge didn't bother screen-writer Axelrod or director Frankenheimer in 1962, and why should it have?
(12) By combining a hodgepodge of miscellaneous claims with no apparent context, the author has created a scary image of impending doom.
(13) This corporate milieu suits the man who convinced a hodgepodge of individuals, corporations and governments to join him in raising the cash to construct a new space to accommodate Calgary's burgeoning theatre scene.
(14) In the early days of the Net, online advertising was merely a crude - almost laughable - hodgepodge of text links and startlingly simple images.
(15) The eclectic set dressings and costumes call to mind a hodgepodge of charmingly cheesy pop moments.
(16) Besides, what person - religious or not - would accept that her belief system is a hodgepodge of u2018truths and fallacies?u2019
(17) He oversees a hodgepodge of intelligence agencies, but he doesn't have the authority to hire or fire agency heads.
(18) This u2018social softwareu2019 business seems to be one of those ill-understood hodgepodges that mean anything that the speakers variously want it to mean.
(19) This is a decent, if muddled, hodgepodge of moments from Bowling for Columbine's history.
(20) Farrell recently sat down over coffee with correspondent Michael Arndt and mused on this hodgepodge of products.
(21) The group creates a sort of subversive performance art, with a hodgepodge of unorthodox and sometimes silly scientific projects commissioned to expose the inadequacies and evils of modern biotech research.
(22) Naturally, investors don't process this hodgepodge of inputs according to some set of explicit, easily transcribed rules.
(23) The decor is a hodgepodge of retro furniture and bistro posters, and it hasn't really settled on what vibe it wants to send to customers.
(24) The city's hodgepodge of Victorian follies, French neoclassical palaces, and modest wooden chalets clinging precariously to the hillsides is literally falling apart.
(25) Throughout this hodgepodge of overinterpretation, art suffered.
(26) One advantage to this hodgepodge of diversity is that several of the articles, particularly those with economics as a sub-theme, stand out in positive contrast.
(27) The result is a system that is a hodgepodge of mostly public ownership and some private, without any clear direction from government.
(28) The result was an aesthetic and thematic hodgepodge that demanded correction.
(29) So the cabinet has wound up consisting of a hodgepodge of people of different ideologies who find it virtually impossible to build team spirit.
(30) Getting that hodgepodge of mismatched home electronics out of sight, together with their ugly cable cords, will make your room a more tranquil place for relaxation and recuperation.
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