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Recent Examples of patchy
Wrexham’s own recent form is rather patchy compared to Orient, their eight games since the turn of the year having yielded three victories and three defeats.
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Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
The two skin-loving ingredients add slip to prevent tugging while keeping lips moisturized to avoid flaking or patchy fading.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2025
Late Saturday afternoon is forecast to be rainy with periods of sleet and patchy fog with a high near 38.
—Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2025
The creamy, gel pencil-to-powder formula has an angled tip that can effortlessly fill patchy areas and create precise, slender hair-like strokes alike.
—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 4 Feb. 2025
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Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
The two skin-loving ingredients add slip to prevent tugging while keeping lips moisturized to avoid flaking or patchy fading.
—Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2025
Late Saturday afternoon is forecast to be rainy with periods of sleet and patchy fog with a high near 38.
—Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2025
The creamy, gel pencil-to-powder formula has an angled tip that can effortlessly fill patchy areas and create precise, slender hair-like strokes alike.
—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 4 Feb. 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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Notably, a very faded painting of the crucifixion scene with Jesus on the cross was also uncovered, the image of his crown of thorns sticking out from an orange and yellow backdrop.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
24 Mar. 2025
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Gap High-Rise Wide-Leg Jeans These wide-leg jeans are designed in a light blue wash with whiskered and faded details, and flared, bell-like hems.—
Jamie Allison Sanders,
People.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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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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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
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Customers and analysts alike say food quality suffered, table service slowed and restaurants became dingy.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2025
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When Abercrombie does offer up interiors, they’re sparsely furnished and dingy, like rooms in a flophouse.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
ARTnews.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The game has all the trappings of the FromSoftware universe — a gloomy backdrop of a decrepit empire, a pile of eldritch lore, nooks and crannies that are intentionally difficult to discover — but all of that is wrapped up in an action platformer.—
Luke Winkie,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2025
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Some rooms are visibly charred from the fire, while others appear cluttered and decrepit due to a lack of maintenance over the years.—
Karina Tsui,
CNN Money,
1 Apr. 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 14 Apr. 2025.
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