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Recent Examples of patchy
The work week will begin with a moody Monday, a 70% chance of more showers, patchy fog and high temperatures in the lower 60s.
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Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2025
This weekend, while camping in the California desert, an email reached me via patchy wireless service.
—Janet Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
Despite some patchy form as of late; Uruguay can move into a commanding position in the table with 3 points against its neighbour on Friday.
—Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Winds were diminishing on Wednesday but patchy blowing dust was still possible in the eastern part of the state, the Weather Service said.
—Yan Zhuang, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025
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Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2025
This weekend, while camping in the California desert, an email reached me via patchy wireless service.
—Janet Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2025
Despite some patchy form as of late; Uruguay can move into a commanding position in the table with 3 points against its neighbour on Friday.
—Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
Winds were diminishing on Wednesday but patchy blowing dust was still possible in the eastern part of the state, the Weather Service said.
—Yan Zhuang, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for patchy
Adjective
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City officials say failing lifeguard towers present two problems: Lifeguards could get injured inside a dilapidated structure, and the public could be at higher risk if lifeguards can’t effectively scan beaches and bays.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
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The film follows three characters – a traditional beekeeper, a healer and a priest attempting to save a dilapidated church – and features archival material dating back to the 1930s.—
Lise Pedersen,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2025
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Like Napoleon’s Uncle Rico, who dwells on his long-ago high-school-football days, Garrett is living in the faded aura of past glory: in his case, a 1989 video-game championship.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2025
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As thousands of migrants cycled through its faded lobby, the Roosevelt turned into a lightning rod in the country’s immigration debate: both as a reminder of the depth of the crisis and as shorthand for critics opposed to the expenditure of taxpayer money on migrants.—
Luis Ferré-Sadurní,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The decision on whether to repair the most visible part of the damage — the shredded roof ― has loomed over the City Council.—
Jack Prator,
Orlando Sentinel,
25 Mar. 2025
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Both Theory and Waller looked more shredded than ever this WrestleMania season.—
Alfred Konuwa,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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Davis was more or less rocking his signature look — a red Adidas tracksuit, hair in mangy dreads.—
Ed Masley,
The Arizona Republic,
4 Oct. 2024
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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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That transition can be rough regardless of the next step on their life’s journey, but a particularly dingy college dorm can take the experience from bad to worse.—
Madeline Fitzgerald,
Quartz,
9 Apr. 2025
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The basics remain the same: Four players take control of survivors attempting to escape a dingy hellhole, while a fifth takes the role of a roaming psychopath trying to kill them.—
Luke Winkie,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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More relegating our seniors to the category of weak, stooped and decrepit; people to be laughed at.—
Kelly Papa,
Hartford Courant,
7 Mar. 2025
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But not rocking the boat might mean saddling us with a costly, decrepit, out-of-date payment system for many more years to come.—
Dylan Matthews,
Vox,
5 Mar. 2025
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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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Perhaps that’s why people around the world have had the impulse to gnaw on tacky materials—roots, resins, twigs, blubber, tar made by burning birch bark—for at least 8,000 years.—
Hannah Seo,
The Atlantic,
29 Mar. 2025
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It’s gotten bad enough that on Tuesday, Donald Trump had his top advisor and megadonor show off Tesla models for a tacky photo-op in the White House driveway, where the president told Americans to support the company and pledged to buy a Model S himself.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Patchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patchy. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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