cobble

Example Sentences

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Three governments in France have collapsed in less than a year, as they struggled to cobble together support in the fragmented National Assembly to pass a budget and narrow France’s widening deficit.

From The Wall Street Journal

BLS statisticians will have to cobble together the report after asking businesses and employees well after the fact about who was employed.

From MarketWatch

We can see that Shakespeare really was an upstart compared to the Oxford and Cambridge wits, but also how he cobbled together a practical, hands-on education in Shoreditch.

From The Wall Street Journal

Merely signaling intent to filibuster now shifts the burden to the majority, who must cobble together 60 votes just to proceed to a vote that only requires a simple majority for passage.

From Barron's

Instead, policymakers have had to rely on an array of private data and state administrative records—as well as regional bank surveys and research—to cobble together a picture of the U.S. economy.

From Barron's