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[SMOR-gahs-bord', SMOR-gahs-boerd'] 
1. a buffet style meal featuring an assortment of hot and cold dishes
2. a heterogeneous collection: "Kim knew that referring to the cause in her usual religious terms could backfire with the smorgasbord of belief systems in the audience."
Origin:
Approximately 1893; borrowed from Swedish, 'smorgasbord,' from 'smorgas': bread and butter ('smor': butter + dialectal Swedish, 'gas': lump of butter, from Old Norse, 'gas': goose) + 'bord': table. In action:
"Leigh Todd spent four years and $300,000 to have a baby. She saw 10 doctors and sought help at medical clinics in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas.
It is easy to see where the money goes, doctors say, especially with clinics offering a smorgasbord of items that can add thousands of dollars to a pregnancy attempt. Some are generally accepted, including intracytoplasmic sperm injection to fertilize eggs, assisted hatching to help an embryo break loose and grow, defragmentation of embryos to clean up stray pieces of cytoplasm, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, embryo freezing and storage, and donor sperm and eggs."
Gina Kolata. "The Heart's Desire," The New York Times (May 11, 2004).
"Considering the frightening popularity of TV's plastic-surgery makeover shows, next month's theatrical release of 'The Stepford Wives' remake could not have been better timed. Suddenly, a community of life-size Barbie robots with assembly-line smiles doesn't seem so far-fetched.
On ABC's 'Extreme Makeover' we saw women who have had so much plastic surgery that they're thrilled when their own bewildered toddlers don't recognize them. ('Mommy?') On MTV's 'I Want a Famous Face,' people barely old enough to vote want to be 'cut' to look like Brad or Britney. And on 'The Swan,' a group of eight women who have had their individuality homogenized with a smorgasbord of nose jobs, breast implants and liposuction vie for the chance to compete in a beauty pageant."
Sue Hutchison. "We're so vain: Pursuing perfection and shunning our differences leaves us less than whole." Mercury News (May 14, 2004).
"Yesterday morning, the Danish Club reassembled at Federation Square - where they put on horned Viking helmets, set out a smorgasbord - 800 plates of salmon, pork, herring were sold - and stood to watch a Danish-language documentary about Mary."
Renee Barnes, John Elder and Kate Hagan. "Party time as the wine flows and tears fall," [As the bride and groom said their vows, Melburnians celebrated.] The Age (May 16, 2004).
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