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Example Sentences

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The blunt-spoken president’s own political skills have rapidly improved, enabling him to cobble together legislative majorities while his own Freedom Advances party remains in the minority.

From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026

She comes only once a week, paid for by whatever funds the clinic can cobble together.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026

"So how do you take those events, make them meaningful in their own right, but cobble them together in a competitive model?"

From BBC • Dec. 16, 2025

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 • Nov. 13, 2025

A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy