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Recent Examples of patchy
Late Saturday afternoon is forecast to be rainy with periods of sleet and patchy fog with a high near 38.
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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
Friday morning begins with patchy fog that should begin diminishing after 9 a.m.
The fog area covers most of Central Florida, according to NWS Melbourne.
—Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2025
With Amorim’s system requiring one extra centre-back and given Lisandro Martinez’s patchy injury record and indifferent form, a revival of the interest in Branthwaite cannot be discounted in future.
—James McNicholas, The Athletic, 25 Dec. 2024
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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
Friday morning begins with patchy fog that should begin diminishing after 9 a.m.
The fog area covers most of Central Florida, according to NWS Melbourne.
—Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2025
With Amorim’s system requiring one extra centre-back and given Lisandro Martinez’s patchy injury record and indifferent form, a revival of the interest in Branthwaite cannot be discounted in future.
—James McNicholas, The Athletic, 25 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for patchy
Adjective
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That sounds logical, but a healthy housing market needs some extra properties to account for old or dilapidated homes that are demolished or taken out of use – not to mention some vacancies so people can move around.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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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
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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Tennessee onions are a Southern side dish made with layers of sweet onion slices, shredded cheese, and butter.—
Sarah Martens,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Mar. 2025
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Plus, Mamma Lil's peppers, shredded lettuce, onion, parmesan crisps, amba aioli and housemade vinaigrette.—
Nicole Cobler,
Axios,
28 Jan. 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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Basketball was so unimportant and the school was so chintzy that the athletic director, who also was the head football coach, made Sloan pay $107 out of his own pocket to have carpet installed in his dingy office.—
Mike Bianchi,
Orlando Sentinel,
20 Mar. 2025
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Carved out of the ground floor of the airport’s parking garage, this space was a temporary replacement for the dingy, crowded, original domestic terminal built 34 years prior, which was not handicap-accessible and had an inadequate baggage facility and a troublesome security layout.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Consider the National Culvert Removal, Replacement, and Restoration Grant Program, which allocated $1 billion over five years to fix decrepit culverts, the unglamorous pipes that funnel water beneath roadways.—
Ben Goldfarb,
Vox,
14 Mar. 2025
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Working-class Black Chicagoans paid more for rent and living expenses and got smaller, more decrepit units with many more code violations than their white working-class counterparts.—
Erik Wallenberg,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 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 ball used in the KBO is tackier and the seams are different, the strike zone is much smaller and the ballparks tend to be very hitter friendly.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
25 Feb. 2025
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In recent years, his chairmanship has fanned the flames of conflict between himself and downtown residents who say Carollo has used his power in the agency like a cudgel to clutter precious greenspace with tacky and unnecessary installations.—
Tess Riski,
Miami Herald,
14 Feb. 2025
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“Patchy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patchy. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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