Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bag to contain rags or heterogeneous clippings of cloth; hence, a receptacle for any collection of odds and ends.
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Examples
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Again, however, the timing and the presentation of this unsourced rag-bag of allegations are suspicious in the extreme.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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This too is just a rag-bag of simplistic liberal flummeries; Nancy Pelosi claptrap.
Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement Conrad Black 2011
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As the new Taoiseach, Mr Kenny would be wise to invite the resurgent Labour party into his government, as opposed to seeking to cobble together a majority out of a rag-bag of independents.
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I have a little soldering iron I use for cutting stencils; I should give it a go on some bits from my rag-bag ...
Summer mini and more katelnorth 2008
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Glencore, which also markets much of Xtrata's output, helped finance the multibillion-dollar acquisition spree that turned Xstrata from a rag-bag of mining assets into a global base-metals and coal producer with the same market capitalization as Anglo American.
Xstrata's Glencore Problem Matthew Curtin 2010
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I look like a walking rag-bag most of the time ... .
While I'm Thinking About Fall Fashion Magazines - A Dress A Day 2010
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Glencore, which also markets much of Xtrata's output, helped finance the multibillion-dollar acquisition spree that turned Xstrata from a rag-bag of mining assets into a global base-metals and coal producer with the same market capitalization as Anglo American.
Xstrata's Glencore Problem Matthew Curtin 2010
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Glencore, which also markets much of Xtrata's output, helped finance the multibillion-dollar acquisition spree that turned Xstrata from a rag-bag of mining assets into a global base-metals and coal producer with the same market capitalization as Anglo American.
Xstrata's Glencore Problem Matthew Curtin 2010
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And Roy Hodgson has made what might be called an early statement signing: an Englishman; a creative, passing midfielder; and a player of proven quality rather than a rag-bag of promising off-cuts.
Joe Cole has the talent and stage for a late-career flourish at Liverpool 2010
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Judge Orders Release of Algerian from Guantánamo (But He's Not Going Anywhere) yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Judge Orders Release of Algerian from Guantánamo (But He\'s Not Going Anywhere)'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The judge\'s ruling is still classified, but it seems probable that the ruling will refute the government\'s claims that its rag-bag of hearsay, innuendo, and snippets of intelligence is coherent enough to constitute real evidence.
Judge Orders Release of Algerian from Guant��namo (But He's Not Going Anywhere) 2009
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