"Site Q is a sort of grab-bag category," says Stuart. From Wordnik.com. [The Search for Site Q] Reference
A grab-bag, an orange tree, with saleable parcels on it. From Wordnik.com. [Entertainments for Home, Church and School] Reference
The grab-bag discussion centers almost entirely on sports. From Wordnik.com. [In Sports As in Life] Reference
This Universal set is a grab-bag of movies with one corker. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Is There Finally Some Oscar Hope for Star Trek?"] Reference
That stakeout is sort of a grab-bag affair, more than anything. From Wordnik.com. [Roger MacBride]
The Marshall Suite offers another grab-bag of influences and ideas. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews - anecdotes] Reference
Just as we're about to get yet another grab-bag of financial regulations. From Wordnik.com. [The West Virginia Mining Disaster and the Financial Crisis Have the Same Root Cause] Reference
You are a mere grab-bag of atomic particles, a conglomeration of genetic substance. From Wordnik.com. [The Wars Over Evolution] Reference
Long story short, the grab-bag character of the stimulus is a feature rather than a bug. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » What “Belongs” In the Stimulus?] Reference
You could put all the gifts in a grab-bag, and let people pull out their gifts randomly. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Weinstein: Fun At Work: The Holiday Gift Exchange] Reference
Yes, these were a grab-bag collection of races with local particularities and low turnout. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Right] Reference
BookMaven: For a long time the grab-bag giveaway was whatever hardcovers I had on my shelf!. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Dalton-Beninato: Friday Reads: Readers Tweet Their Favorite Books] Reference
Mr. Hayden goes on with a grab-bag of wild assertions that my sixth grade son could puncture. From Wordnik.com. [Is That Legal?: Former Navy Secretary John Lehman Said What?] Reference
His "Legendary" grab-bag is even vaguer, still more dependent on "common-sensical" assumptions. From Wordnik.com. [An Exchange on the Oracle] Reference
Second, companies measure performance inconsistently, with a grab-bag of metrics that change over time. From Wordnik.com. [CEOs Need to Bring Investors Along for the Ride] Reference
Now, there's a third sort of grab-bag set of arguments against it -- and I don't mean to deprecate them. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President On Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty] Reference
Except for Twilight, but this is neither the time nor the place to discuss that particular grab-bag of oddness. From Wordnik.com. [2009 July « paper fruit] Reference
Voters on Tuesday faced a grab-bag of local issues and responded with mixed messages for both national parties. From Wordnik.com. [Tax and Offend] Reference
All the offices now provided by law with within the City and County of New-York, shall be put in a grand grab-bag. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870] Reference
We'll be coming back to this one later, with a grab-bag of illustrations Robinson-Briggs may not be happy she provoked. From Wordnik.com. [War against Chief Santiago blowing up in Mayor's face?] Reference
Rather than a random grab-bag of unsavory topics for GOP ears, the list is more like a set of parallel slippery slopes. From Wordnik.com. [Huckabee Adviser Clarifies Remark About Homosexuality And Necrophilia: They're Both "Aberrant Behavior," But They're At "Opposite Ends Of The Spectrum"] Reference
So on Wednesday the White House reached deep into its grab-bag of presidential promises for a bit of good economic news. From Wordnik.com. [With recovery struggling, White House touts growth in exports] Reference
Every person owning real estate on the Island shall contribute one ninety-ninth part of his income to the said grab-bag. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 01, April 2, 1870] Reference
He offers a grab-bag of pop-culture references from the 1920s to the 1980s, usually without descending into academic cant. From Wordnik.com. [When Cuba Invaded America] Reference
"If you need anything more in the way of cheer, I will bring forth the grab-bag," said Norah, as she handed Alex some tea. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
The green silk strip, piece of marbled fabric and the fleur-de-lis stencil paper are from the grab-bag I won on Susan's blog. From Wordnik.com. [Journal Quilt Project - Week 19] Reference
Dozens of latkes, grab-bag gifts; I'm happy to light candles again just to hear that familiar choir of voices lifted in song. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Stabiner: What is the Sound of One Latke Flipping?] Reference
In reality, from Cedar Street to Mills Street and certainly beyond, the Thaxton marriage was a grab-bag of good and bad times. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Deception]
"I have been constructing a grab-bag, and you shall have the first grab;" and Norah brought out a bag made of rainbow ribbons. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
Recently concluded this economic vision wouldn't sell politically, so he cobbled together a grab-bag "plan" for economic growth. From Wordnik.com. [A Voter's Guide To The Issues] Reference
That grab-bag of Machiavellian fantasies certainly captures the spirit of adventurous preemption that characterized the Iraq war. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Fleshler: Jewish Neocons Are Dead Wrong, Not Disloyal] Reference
To the extent "wisdom" means anything, it refers to a grab-bag of qualities as various as self-discipline, experience, and empathy. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Worth Being Wise?] Reference
Obama led with a bail-out of banks, a bail-out of failing automobile manufacturers (and their unions), and a grab-bag of pet projects. From Wordnik.com. [Useful Idiocy « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy] Reference
It's a grab-bag of odds and ends, with the centerpiece being a 1960 session recorded with pianist Don Friedman and drummer Pete LaRoca. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Sachs: My Top Ten Old New (Or Is It New Old?) Records of 2009] Reference
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