Thesaurus results for OLLA PODRIDA

olla podrida

noun

ˈä-lə-pə-ˈdrē-də

Definition of olla podrida

as in medley

an unorganized collection or mixture of various things the olla podrida of tongues that one hears on the streets of a bustling metropolis like New York City

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Noun

Waiters walked around the room serving bowls of pasta with a medley of sauces.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
After an opening medley that spans New Orleans jazz and bounce, the record’s signposts grow increasingly fuzzy.

— Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of medley

Noun

Developed with creative chairman Reed Krakoff and design teams in New York and Bali, the assortment splices the siblings’ contrasting aesthetics with John Hardy’s longstanding tradition of handcraft.

— Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2026
Now, a deeper look suggests a much broader assortment of material from the outside world — silica, metals, soot and other debris — is getting through.

— Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of assortment

Noun

Locals claimed that drinking it was helpful for a variety of respiratory and digestive problems.

— D. T. Max, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
That includes cards such as the Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card (see rates and fees), which comes with a variety of excellent travel insurance benefits and the American Express® Gold Card, which is a rewarding option for dining and grocery purchases.

— Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of variety

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So are three mural-sized collages that reflect his ongoing investigations into the legacies of colonialism.

— Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
The first gallery presents Krasner’s collage works from the mid 1950s, when Pollock was at an artistic impasse and spiraling out of control.

— John Yau, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of collage

Noun

Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.

— Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.

— Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026

Definition of jumble

Noun

Line of Fire is not about any one of those agencies but the whole alphabet soup of them, as filtered through the experiences of a single flawed but loving family.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
This mom-and-pop image clashes with the reality that the independents, as they are known, are highly organized into an alphabet soup of newly influential lobbying groups — with Hildebrand a member of several.

— Alex Cuadros, ProPublica, 16 June 2026

Definition of alphabet soup

Noun

One thing that Mamdani should do on property taxes is push to reform the crazy quilt and unfair system.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026
There’s everything from 19th-century crazy quilts to vintage napkins, even a bag of stretchy strings.

— Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 6 June 2025

Definition of crazy quilt

Noun

Together, the collections resembled a patchwork quilt of color.

— Angela Haupt, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
That’s a prime example of the patchwork quilt of producers, platforms and distributors that drive content deals these days — and no two are the same, Fraser adds.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of patchwork quilt

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