smorgasbord

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  1. noun A buffet meal featuring a varied number of dishes.
  2. noun A varied collection: "a smorgasbord of fashionable paranormal beliefs” (Martin Gardner).

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  • It was dusk and she was laid out like a smorgasbord. —  Barr, Nevada - [Anna Pigeon 02] A Superior Death v1.0 HTML
  • But his advisers have made it sound more like a smorgasbord than à la carte, signalling a desire to take a broader, more collaborative approach to a laundry list of Middle East problems-the war in Afghanistan, a fragile regime in Iraq, a surge in Islamic radicalism, and oppressive governments. —  Macleans.ca
  • Is this CD a smorgasbord or a case of too many cooks? —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • GLAAD has released their list of the worst anti-gay and anti-transgender voices of 2008, and it's a veritable smorgasbord orgasbord of idiotic statements and blatant lies and misinformation. —  AfterElton.com - Because visibility matters
  • It's a veritable smorgasbord of giveaways, promos and contests all through tax season - partly because I like to give things away and partly because I wanted to use the word "smorgasbord." —  taxgirl
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  1. Swedish smörgåsbord : smörgås, bread and butter (smör, butter from Old Norse + Swedish dialectal gås, lump of butter from Old Norse gās, goose; see gosling) + bord, table (from Old Norse bordh).
 

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