cobble
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Other children at the shelter kick a ball around while their parents make use of food donations to cobble together meals for their little ones.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
And because chatbots cobble together sentences from patterns found in human language, AI messages have their own problematic telltales—clichés and stilted sentences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Most parents lose sleep over the amount of piecemeal work required to cobble together a summer schedule; very few relish the planning and spreadsheets and carpool rota involved in keeping their kids safe and occupied.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
To cobble together the package of content you want requires subscribing to multiple services at ever-increasing cost.
From MarketWatch ● May 28, 2026
He is taught to write letters that hang from a bar, and eventually to cobble these intricate shapes into his name.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
That last element illustrated a sport in rude health and again raised the question of why organisers had not run the traditional closing stage over the scenic cobbled hill before its debut visit last year.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Needing new material for their 1981 tour, the Stones cobbled together “Tattoo You” from leftovers and half-finished songs dating back to “Goats Head Soup.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Firetrucks squeezed through the narrow cobbled streets and tiny archways leading to the cathedral.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Beneath are the roofs and cobbled streets of the medieval Old Town, where ancient pubs stand among jewelers specializing in local jet.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
They ran through the echoing hall, along the corridor and into the kitchen, through the scullery, and into a cobbled court beyond it.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
Belgium's complex political system means that De Wever is well versed in the art of painstaking negotiations and cobbling together compromise deals.
From Barron's ● Dec. 17, 2025
And companies such as Huawei are cobbling together workarounds, including by bundling thousands of chips into huge, power-hungry systems that can help train AI models, people familiar with their moves said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
It was essentially cobbling together a Frankenstein résumé from leftover pieces of information harvested from my search history, and passing it off as my own work experience.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
Time is tight and the bar is high – cobbling together 80 people willing to back you in a handful of days isn't easy.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2025
Workers scrambled to get the pumping system back online, patching the hoses that could be salvaged and cobbling together any new hoses they could find to replace the ones that could not.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
