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Recent Examples of patchy
Read More The Best Mesh Wi-Fi Routers Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house.
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Kat Merck, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2025
The result could be an uncoordinated approach that creates patchy systems with unclear outcomes for employees and stakeholders.
—London School Of Economics, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
More patchy frost was expected Saturday, which will have a high near 57 and an overnight low around 37.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 15 Jan. 2025
Friday will also be sunny with a high of about 60 degrees, but there will be patchy fog at night.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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Kat Merck, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2025
The result could be an uncoordinated approach that creates patchy systems with unclear outcomes for employees and stakeholders.
—London School Of Economics, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
More patchy frost was expected Saturday, which will have a high near 57 and an overnight low around 37.
—Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 15 Jan. 2025
Friday will also be sunny with a high of about 60 degrees, but there will be patchy fog at night.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for patchy
Adjective
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The hotel is founded and managed by locals, who transformed a dilapidated bed-and-breakfast into a six-acre luxury hotel in 2001.—
Maya Kachroo-Levine,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Feb. 2025
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They were forced to live in dilapidated buildings with mold, sewage, and rodent issues, and were confined to their rooms for weeks on end.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Gray and faded whiskers may be changed to their natural color and even brown or black by using Buckingham dye – try it.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Groom indoor foliage to remove old leaves, faded flowers and declining portions.—
Tom MacCubbin,
Orlando Sentinel,
1 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The bodice sparkled, and the skirt offered a shredded silhouette that showed peeks of Moore's skin.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
8 Feb. 2025
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Serve with your favorite toppings, including sour cream, corn chips, and shredded cheese.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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His Orlok is more feral and red-blooded than previous iterations, appearing swathed in ursine furs and accompanied by mangy curs.—
Celia Mattison,
Vulture,
27 Dec. 2024
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Paramount The other animal that makes a big impression is the mangy baboon that Paul Mescal’s character, Lucius, has to fight in his first battle.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
21 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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The dingy, raw feeling of the subculture has faded somewhat — the majority of American gaming arcades have closed down — but the community has maintained its spirit.—
Ahmed Ali Akbar,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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Ditto the period production and costume design, exactingly dingy in each detail from clunky rotary phones to knobbly knitwear, but without a hint of retro-fab nostalgia: If the past is a foreign country, the future, or at least the ’90s, beckons with some promise of home.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
21 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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In the film, the decrepit vampire Orlok is obsessed with Ellen Hutter (Lily-Rose Depp), the wife of Thomas Hutter (Hoult).—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
19 Feb. 2025
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In the dog days of summer, the kids discover a decrepit house and the old man (Rentaro Mikuni) who lives there alone.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But the story is lumpy too, its mechanical interweaving of Shakespeare and Disney somehow both predictable and holey.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
24 Oct. 2021
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In a 2018 Frontiers in Psychiatry case study, a girl with trypophobia reported being triggered by seeds on bread, polka dot or animal prints, holey cheese, and honeycomb.—
Natasha Lavender,
SELF,
26 July 2019
Adjective
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The first film had charm and heart, while Daddy’s Home 2 is mostly a tacky, tasteless affair.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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This production replaces the Orientalist extravaganza that Sonya Frisell directed in 1988 and that came to define the grand-opera experience — dazzling, uplifting, gloriously tacky — for two generations.—
Justin Davidson,
Vulture,
8 Jan. 2025
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“Patchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patchy. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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