panoplies

[US]/'pænəplɪ/
[UK]/'pænəpli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a complete or impressive collection of things

Example Sentences

a porcupine's panoply of quills.

a deliciously inventive panoply of insults.

a panoply of colorful flags

all the panoply of Western religious liturgy.

a panoply of alpine peaks;

a panoply of colorful flags.See Synonyms at display

Something for Mr Kloppers to consider as he mulls over the $290m paid to BHP's panoply of high-octane advisers over the past 18 months.

Real-world Examples

When fat was seen as the devil, the food industry gave us a panoply of low-fat products.

Source: The Guardian (Article Version)

Spikes in blood glucose after meals are known markers for weight gain and a panoply of metabolic disorders.

Source: 2023-37

The arrows of the pleasant sunshine fell back, frostbitten, from the cold panoply of her unthrilled bosom.

Source: Selected Works of O. Henry

And we think of inflation in a really singular way… and that really limits the vast panoply of tools that we actually have to fight this problem.

Source: Vox opinion

Some thirty pictures by the masters, uniformly framed and separated by gleaming panoplies of arms, adorned walls on which were stretched tapestries of austere design.

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

His figured panoply of death looked more like a disguise assumed in mockery than a fierce annunciation of a desire to carry destruction in his footsteps.

Source: The Last of the Mohicans (Chinese)

And yet unless the full panoply of our emotions is regularly identified and adequately 'felt', we are likely to fall prey to a range of psychological ills: anxiety, paranoia, depression and worse.

Source: The school of life

For that very reason Virginia Woolf warned women in the 30s not to be tempted by the panoply of power and the trappings of national honour – which would suck them into war.

Source: The Guardian (Article Version)

Quicker than the thoughts could follow those unexpected and audacious movements, an image, armed in the emblematic panoply of death, glided before their eyes, and assumed a threatening attitude at the other's side.

Source: The Last of the Mohicans (Part One)

They don't cough or feel short of breath, and they don't get the strange panoply of other symptoms that can herald a COVID-19 infection like frostbite-like bumps on the skin, diarrhea, or the loss of smell or taste.

Source: Selected English short passages

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