as in medley
an unorganized collection or mixture of various things
the alphabet soup of designer drugs that were available to patrons of the once-notorious disco
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If applied at the national level, a more generous UBI could perhaps replace the alphabet soup of anti-poverty programs with a single check delivered monthly to all households.
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Karl W. Smith, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
Back in 2013, there had been nearly a thousand rebel groups, an alphabet soup of acronyms.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
At Casa Fina in Boyle Heights, Assemblymember Miguel Santiago — who in early returns held a lead of fewer than 300 votes over Jurado for second place — thanked the alphabet soup’s worth of unions that had contributed over half a million dollars in independent expenditures on his behalf.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Lots of cooks from an alphabet soup of federal entities — DOD, HHS, ASPR, IBMSC and DFC — had a hand in the project, some of them moving on after making what Blue Star says were verbal guarantees to cover cost overruns on the nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) plant and to build the glove factory.
—Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
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Karl W. Smith, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2024
Back in 2013, there had been nearly a thousand rebel groups, an alphabet soup of acronyms.
—Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
At Casa Fina in Boyle Heights, Assemblymember Miguel Santiago — who in early returns held a lead of fewer than 300 votes over Jurado for second place — thanked the alphabet soup’s worth of unions that had contributed over half a million dollars in independent expenditures on his behalf.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
Lots of cooks from an alphabet soup of federal entities — DOD, HHS, ASPR, IBMSC and DFC — had a hand in the project, some of them moving on after making what Blue Star says were verbal guarantees to cover cost overruns on the nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) plant and to build the glove factory.
—Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
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