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hodge-podge

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But when you throw them in with a hodge-podge of approaches, at some point the result is a hot mess.

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Alternative form of hodgepodge. [A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.]

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noun

Alternative form of hodgepodge. [A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.]

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noun

Alternative form of hodgepodge. [A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.]

Example sentences

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But when you throw them in with a hodge-podge of approaches, at some point the result is a hot mess.

2

Nothing else even comes close - not WebStorm, not Sublime and not Vim or some hodge-podge of other tools.

3

Compared to that kind of hodge-podge, relativity is still a really simple theory.

4

The services in question are built with a hodge-podge of shell scripts and build tools, so getting them all to compile locally is a challenge, let alone deploying them.

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I was hoping for an explanation of how airlines globally price customer internet access out from a business perspective; instead I got a hodge-podge of quick reviews from a customer perspective of airlines in the US only.

6

It looks very "Linux" from however long ago - that is, poor and inconsistent spacing, hodge-podge of icons (especially overcomplicated ones), frugal padding, etc.

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It looks very "Linux" from however long ago - that is, poor and inconsistent spacing, hodge-podge of icons (especially overcomplicated ones), frugal padding, etc.

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How do you use hodge-podge in a sentence?

But when you throw them in with a hodge-podge of approaches, at some point the result is a hot mess.

What does hodge-podge mean?

Alternative form of hodgepodge. [A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things.]

What part of speech is hodge-podge?

hodge-podge is commonly used as noun.