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- noun Alternative spelling of
hodgepodge .
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To those who say that such a system would be bungled by the incompetent government, open to abuse, and insecure — would it be more bungled, more abused, and less secure than our present half-assed hodge-podge?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Words I never expected to write 2010
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Rich Rostrom: To those who say that such a system would be bungled by the incompetent government, open to abuse, and insecure — would it be more bungled, more abused, and less secure than our present half-assed hodge-podge?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Words I never expected to write 2010
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The Islamists led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini functioned as an umbrella group for a hodge-podge of other oppositions — from seculars to communists — but at the end they triumphed.
Egyptian Revolution Stirs Raw Emotions in Iran Farnaz Fassihi 2011
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The end result being a hodge-podge of laws that are contradictory and impossible to understand as a whole.
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For example, the Federal Communications Commission FCC still enforces a hodge-podge of archaic media ownership controls, "localism" programming guidelines, advertising regulations and speech restrictions that should have been eliminated years ago.
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The so-called liberal issues of today are a hodge-podge of political correctness gone mad.
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My reading has been, since the womb, a hodge-podge of letters in a foreign script I have not yet learned.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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My reading has been, since the womb, a hodge-podge of letters in a foreign script I have not yet learned.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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If you want real success, you invest in changing the education system, in developing real curricula instead of hodge-podge of random topics, and not in novel punitive measures.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How President Obama is bringing real education reform to Colorado 2010
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For example, the Federal Communications Commission FCC still enforces a hodge-podge of archaic media ownership controls, "localism" programming guidelines, advertising regulations and speech restrictions that should have been eliminated years ago.
bilby commented on the word hodge-podge
A word for the hoi-polloi and none other.
December 12, 2007
yarb commented on the word hodge-podge
I lived some time with a walking dictionary at Salamanca, a fellow up to the elbows in quotation and commentary. He could put a large volume together like a house of cards. His library furnished him with a hodge-podge of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin common places, which he translated into buckram Castilian.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 9 ch. 9
October 8, 2008