Word of the Day: mélange

The word mélange has appeared in 48 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 21 in “Matthew Macfadyen Has Mixed Feelings About the End of ‘Succession’” by Sarah Lyall:

Macfadyen missed his family when he was off shooting “Succession,” and often flew home to England when he had a break in filming. But he sounded wistful about the end of the show.

“It was a really lovely bunch of actors,” he said. “It’s a weird thing, the grief when you finish a job. It’s sort of awful and heartbreaking, but at the same time, there’s a slight relief — a complicated mélange of feelings.”

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