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While teasing the reader with questions about the child’s paternity, Lamont’s story of a make-do family revels in the often comically porous borders of faith, home, and adulthood.
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The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
Many of its most successful innovations on the battlefield are the result of having to make-do, or turning to unconventional means to accomplish a mission.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2023
Saar’s, in weathered turquoise, evokes instead notions of scavenging and make-do.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
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The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2025
Many of its most successful innovations on the battlefield are the result of having to make-do, or turning to unconventional means to accomplish a mission.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2023
Saar’s, in weathered turquoise, evokes instead notions of scavenging and make-do.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
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“Make-do.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/make-do. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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